Chamukuy
HR 1412 · HIP 20894 · θ2 Tau
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.41 mag
- Parallax
- 21.69 mas → about 150.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A7III
- Right ascension
- 67.1656°
- Declination
- 15.8709°
- Designation
- HR 1412
- Bayer designation
- θ2 Tau
- HIP number
- 20894
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Yucatec
- Name origin (IAU)
- The Yucatec Maya identify Theta Tauri as chamukuy, the name of a small bird.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 150 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1876 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.9° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.