Hoggar
HD 28678 · HIP 21109
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Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.38 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 189.908 pc (≈ 619.4 light-years)
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 4,972 K
- Right ascension
- 67.8561°
- Declination
- 4.5753°
- Designation
- HD 28678
- HIP number
- 21109
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Hoggar is the name of the main mountain range in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 619 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1407 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 4.6° — 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.