Mago
HD 32518 · HIP 24003
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.42 mag
- Parallax
- 8.29 mas → about 393.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1III
- Surface temperature
- 4,580 K
- Right ascension
- 77.403°
- Declination
- 69.6394°
- Designation
- HD 32518
- HIP number
- 24003
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Ethiopian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Mago is a National Park in Ethiopia noted for its giraffes. The star also happens to be in the constellation of Camelopardis (the giraffe).
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 393 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1633 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 69.6° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.