Ogma
HD 149026 · HIP 80838
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.16 mag
- Parallax
- 12.59 mas → about 259.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0
- Surface temperature
- 6,179 K
- Right ascension
- 247.6234°
- Declination
- 38.3473°
- Designation
- HD 149026
- HIP number
- 80838
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ogma was a deity of eloquence, writing, and great physical strength in the Celtic mythologies of Ireland and Scotland, and may be related to the Gallo-Roman deity "Ogmios".
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 259 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1767 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 38.3° — 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.