Amadioha
HD 43197 · HIP 29550
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.98 mag
- Parallax
- 17.76 mas → about 183.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8/K0IV/V
- Surface temperature
- 5,508 K
- Right ascension
- 93.3986°
- Declination
- -29.8973°
- Designation
- HD 43197
- HIP number
- 29550
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Igbo
- Name origin (IAU)
- Amadioha is the god of thunder in Igbo mythology. As well as representing justice, Amadioha is also a god of love, peace and unity.
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 184 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1842 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -29.9° — 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.