Maia
HR 1149 · HIP 17573 · 20 Tau
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.87 mag
- Parallax
- 8.51 mas → about 383.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8III
- Right ascension
- 56.4567°
- Declination
- 24.3677°
- Designation
- HR 1149
- Bayer designation
- 20 Tau
- HIP number
- 17573
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- These names were individually applied in Early Modern times from a family of characters in Greek mythology: Atlas, Pleione and their seven daughters, the Pleiades.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 383 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1643 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 24.4° — 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.