Bubup
HD 38283 · HIP 26380
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.69 mag
- Parallax
- 26.1 mas → about 125 light-years away
- Spectral type
- WN...
- Surface temperature
- 5,981 K
- Right ascension
- 84.2584°
- Declination
- -73.6993°
- Designation
- HD 38283
- HIP number
- 26380
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Boonwurrung
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bubup is the Boonwurrung word for child.
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 125 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1901 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -73.7° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.