Natasha
HD 85390 · HIP 48235
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.54 mag
- Parallax
- 30.89 mas → about 105.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1V
- Surface temperature
- 5,186 K
- Right ascension
- 147.5104°
- Declination
- -49.7903°
- Designation
- HD 85390
- HIP number
- 48235
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Zambian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Natasha means "thank you" in many languages of Zambia.
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 106 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1920 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.5 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -49.8° — 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.