Intan
HD 20868 · HIP 15578
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.92 mag
- Parallax
- 21.64 mas → about 150.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3/K4IV
- Surface temperature
- 4,802 K
- Right ascension
- 50.1779°
- Declination
- -33.7301°
- Designation
- HD 20868
- HIP number
- 15578
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Bahasa Melyu
- Name origin (IAU)
- Intan means diamond in the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu), alluding to the shining of a star.
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 151 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1875 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -33.7° — 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.