Ebla
HD 218566 · HIP 114322
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.59 mag
- Parallax
- 35.02 mas → about 93.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3V
- Surface temperature
- 4,730 K
- Right ascension
- 347.2932°
- Declination
- -2.2605°
- Designation
- HD 218566
- HIP number
- 114322
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ebla was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria, and served as a prominent region in the 2nd and 3rd millenia B.C.
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 93 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1933 (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 -2.3° — 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.