Felixvarela
BD-17 63 · HIP 2247
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.62 mag
- Parallax
- 28.01 mas → about 116.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5V
- Surface temperature
- 4,714 K
- Right ascension
- 7.1429°
- Declination
- -16.2263°
- Designation
- BD-17 63
- HIP number
- 2247
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Felix Varela (1788–1853) was the first to teach science in Cuba at the San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary. He opened the way to education for all, and began the experimental teaching of physics in Cuba.
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 116 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1910 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -16.2° — 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.