Koeia
HIP 12961 · HIP 12961
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.25 mag
- Parallax
- 43.45 mas → about 75.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M0
- Surface temperature
- 3,901 K
- Right ascension
- 41.6787°
- Declination
- -23.0866°
- Designation
- HIP 12961
- HIP number
- 12961
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Taíno
- Name origin (IAU)
- Koeia was the word for star in the language of the Taíno Indigenous People of the Caribbean.
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 75 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1951 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.3 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -23.1° — 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.