Atakoraka
WASP-64
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 12.53 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 369.926 pc (≈ 1,206.5 light-years)
- Spectral type
- G7
- Surface temperature
- 5,400 K
- Right ascension
- 101.115°
- Declination
- -32.8584°
- Designation
- WASP-64
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Ewe
- Name origin (IAU)
- Atakoraka means the chain of the Atacora: the largest mountain range in Togo.
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 1,207 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 819 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 12.5 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -32.9° — 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.