Baekdu
HD 133086 · HIP 73136 · 8 UMi
🇰🇷 Korea
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.83 mag
- Parallax
- 6.25 mas → about 521.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 4,847 K
- Right ascension
- 224.2015°
- Declination
- 74.9009°
- Designation
- HD 133086
- Bayer designation
- 8 UMi
- HIP number
- 73136
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Korean
- Name origin (IAU)
- Baekdu is the highest mountain on the Korean peninsula, situated in North Korea, and symbolises the national spirit of Korea.
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 522 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1504 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 74.9° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.