Ayeyarwady
HD 18742 · HIP 13993
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.81 mag
- Parallax
- 7.39 mas → about 441.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8/K0IV
- Surface temperature
- 4,940 K
- Right ascension
- 45.0444°
- Declination
- -20.8026°
- Designation
- HD 18742
- HIP number
- 13993
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Burmese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ayeyarwady is the largest and most important river in Myanmar.
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 441 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1585 (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 -20.8° — 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.