Musica
HR 8030 · HIP 103527 · 18 Del
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.506 mag
- Parallax
- 13.28 mas → about 245.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G6III:
- Surface temperature
- 4,980 K
- Right ascension
- 314.6081°
- Declination
- 10.8393°
- Designation
- HR 8030
- Bayer designation
- 18 Del
- HIP number
- 103527
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Musica is Latin for "music".
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 246 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1780 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 10.8° — 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.