Niandao
HR 7157 · HIP 92862 · 13 Lyr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4 mag
- Parallax
- 10.94 mas → about 298.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M5IIIvar
- Right ascension
- 283.8338°
- Declination
- 43.9461°
- Designation
- HR 7157
- Bayer designation
- 13 Lyr
- HIP number
- 92862
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Niăn Dào (Imperial Passageway, 辇道) is a private way for the emporer for harmonious journeys. WGSN represents it by its determinative star.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 298 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1728 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 43.9° — 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.