Nosaxa
HD 48265 · HIP 31895
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.05 mag
- Parallax
- 11.71 mas → about 278.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5IV/V
- Surface temperature
- 5,733 K
- Right ascension
- 100.0072°
- Declination
- -48.542°
- Designation
- HD 48265
- HIP number
- 31895
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Moqoit
- Name origin (IAU)
- Nosaxa means spring in the Moqoit language. The word comes from a combination of nosahuec, which means renew, and ñaaxa, which means year.
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 279 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1747 (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 -48.5° — 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.