Funi
HD 109246 · HIP 61177
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.75 mag
- Parallax
- 15.14 mas → about 215.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0
- Surface temperature
- 5,844 K
- Right ascension
- 188.03°
- Declination
- 74.4895°
- Designation
- HD 109246
- HIP number
- 61177
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Icelandic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Funi is an old Icelandic word meaning fire or blaze.
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 215 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1811 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 74.5° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.