Moth
HD 61005 · HIP 36948
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.22 mag
- Parallax
- 28.29 mas → about 115.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G3/G5V
- Right ascension
- 113.9478°
- Declination
- -32.2039°
- Designation
- HD 61005
- HIP number
- 36948
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-13
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- The star has a surrounding nebula and circumstellar disk, creating the appearance of a moth.
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 115 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1911 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -32.2° — 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.