Lusitânia
HD 45652 · HIP 30905
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.1 mag
- Parallax
- 29.11 mas → about 112 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5
- Surface temperature
- 5,294 K
- Right ascension
- 97.305°
- Declination
- 10.9339°
- Designation
- HD 45652
- HIP number
- 30905
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Lusitânia is the ancient name of the western region of the Iberic Peninsula where the Lusitanian people lived and where most of modern-day Portugal is situated.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 112 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1914 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 10.9° — 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.