Aniara
HD 102956 · HIP 57820
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.86 mag
- Parallax
- 7.92 mas → about 411.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Surface temperature
- 4,985 K
- Right ascension
- 177.8438°
- Declination
- 57.6407°
- Designation
- HD 102956
- HIP number
- 57820
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- fictional
- Name origin (IAU)
- Aniara is the name of a spaceship in the epic poem Aniara by Swedish author Harry Martinson.
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 412 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1614 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 57.6° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.