Gakyid
HD 73534 · HIP 42446
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.23 mag
- Parallax
- 12.34 mas → about 264.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5
- Surface temperature
- 4,917 K
- Right ascension
- 129.8158°
- Declination
- 12.9604°
- Designation
- HD 73534
- HIP number
- 42446
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Dzongkha
- Name origin (IAU)
- Gakyid means happiness. Gross National Happiness is the development philosophy conceived and followed in Bhutan and is one of Bhutan's contributions to the world.
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 264 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1762 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 13° — 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.