Bade
HR 1702 · HIP 24305 · μ Lep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.29 mag
- Parallax
- 17.54 mas → about 185.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9IV: HgMn
- Right ascension
- 78.2329°
- Declination
- -16.2055°
- Designation
- HR 1702
- Bayer designation
- μ Lep
- HIP number
- 24305
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-03-22
- Name language
- Balinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bade, the Funeral Tower, is an Oceanic constellation name from Bali (Indonesia).
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 186 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1840 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -16.2° — 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.