Dofida
HD 117618 · HIP 66047
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.17 mag
- Parallax
- 26.34 mas → about 123.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G2V
- Surface temperature
- 5,990 K
- Right ascension
- 203.1065°
- Declination
- -47.2714°
- Designation
- HD 117618
- HIP number
- 66047
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Nias language
- Name origin (IAU)
- Dofida means our star in Nias language.
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 124 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1902 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -47.3° — 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.