Phoenicia
HD 192263 · HIP 99711 · V1703 Aql
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.79 mag
- Parallax
- 51.77 mas → about 63 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 4,976 K
- Right ascension
- 303.4994°
- Declination
- -0.866881°
- Designation
- HD 192263
- Bayer designation
- V1703 Aql
- HIP number
- 99711
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Phoenicia was an ancient thalassocratic civilisation of the Mediterranean that originated from the area of modern-day Lebanon.
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 63 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1963 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -0.9° — 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.