Chechia
HD 192699 · HIP 99894
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.446 mag
- Parallax
- 15.24 mas → about 214 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5
- Surface temperature
- 5,041 K
- Right ascension
- 304.025°
- Declination
- 4.5808°
- Designation
- HD 192699
- HIP number
- 99894
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Tunisian Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Chechia is a flat-surfaced, traditional red wool hat worn by men and women, symbolising the country's rich traditions and is considered as the national headdress for in Tunisia.
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 214 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1812 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 4.6° — 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.