Timir
HD 148427 · HIP 80687
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.89 mag
- Parallax
- 16.94 mas → about 192.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III/IV
- Surface temperature
- 5,025 K
- Right ascension
- 247.1173°
- Declination
- -13.3996°
- Designation
- HD 148427
- HIP number
- 80687
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Bengali
- Name origin (IAU)
- Timir means darkness in Bengali language, alluding to the star being far away in the darkness of space.
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 193 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1833 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -13.4° — 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.