Xihe
HD 173416 · HIP 91852
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.037 mag
- Parallax
- 7.17 mas → about 454.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8
- Surface temperature
- 4,683 K
- Right ascension
- 280.9005°
- Declination
- 36.5566°
- Designation
- HD 173416
- HIP number
- 91852
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Xihe (羲和) is the goddess of the sun in the Chinese mythology and also represents the earliest astronomers and developers of calendars in ancient China.
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 455 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1571 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 36.6° — 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.