Gloas
WASP-13
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.38 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 227.537 pc (≈ 742.1 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 5,950 K
- Right ascension
- 140.103°
- Declination
- 33.8824°
- Designation
- WASP-13
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Manx Gaelic
- Name origin (IAU)
- In Manx Gaelic, Gloas means to shine (like a star).
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 742 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1284 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 33.9° — 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.