Kaveh
HD 175541 · HIP 92895
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.02 mag
- Parallax
- 7.87 mas → about 414.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8V
- Surface temperature
- 5,013 K
- Right ascension
- 283.9204°
- Declination
- 4.2653°
- Designation
- HD 175541
- HIP number
- 92895
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Persian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Kaveh is one of the heroes of Shahnameh, the epic poem composed by Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010 CE. Kaveh is a blacksmith who symbolises justice.
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 ↗
Related
Constellation
Planets
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 414 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1612 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 4.3° — 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.