Bibhā
HD 86081 · HIP 48711
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.73 mag
- Parallax
- 10.49 mas → about 310.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F8
- Surface temperature
- 5,939 K
- Right ascension
- 149.0247°
- Declination
- -3.8084°
- Designation
- HD 86081
- HIP number
- 48711
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Bengali
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bibhā [/bɪbɦa/] is the Bengali pronunciation of the Sanskrit word Vibha, which means a bright beam of light.
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 311 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1715 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -3.8° — 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.