Tapecue
HD 63765 · HIP 38041
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.1 mag
- Parallax
- 30.07 mas → about 108.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G6IV/V
- Surface temperature
- 5,449 K
- Right ascension
- 116.9572°
- Declination
- -54.2641°
- Designation
- HD 63765
- HIP number
- 38041
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Guarani
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tapecue means eternal path in Guarani and represents the Milky Way through which the first inhabitants of the Earth arrived and could return.
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 108 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1918 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -54.3° — 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.