Nikawiy
HD 136418 · HIP 74961
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.88 mag
- Parallax
- 10.18 mas → about 320.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5
- Surface temperature
- 4,989 K
- Right ascension
- 229.7758°
- Declination
- 41.7332°
- Designation
- HD 136418
- HIP number
- 74961
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Cree language
- Name origin (IAU)
- Nikawiy is the word for mother in the Indigenous Cree language of Canada.
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 320 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1706 (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 41.7° — 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.