Sāmaya
HD 205739 · HIP 106824
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.56 mag
- Parallax
- 9.28 mas → about 351.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F7V
- Surface temperature
- 6,176 K
- Right ascension
- 324.535°
- Declination
- -31.7375°
- Designation
- HD 205739
- HIP number
- 106824
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Sinhalese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Sāmaya means peace in the Sinhalese language.
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 351 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1675 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -31.7° — 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.