Taiyi
HR 4916 · HIP 63076 · 8 Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.225 mag
- Parallax
- 34.14 mas → about 95.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A5n
- Right ascension
- 193.869°
- Declination
- 65.4385°
- Designation
- HR 4916
- Bayer designation
- 8 Dra
- HIP number
- 63076
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- single star asterism: August Unity, Supreme One
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 96 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1930 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 65.4° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.