Dingolay
HD 96063 · HIP 54158
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.21 mag
- Parallax
- 6.33 mas → about 515.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 5,020 K
- Right ascension
- 166.1852°
- Declination
- -2.5132°
- Designation
- HD 96063
- HIP number
- 54158
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- Dingolay means to dance, twist and turn in elaborate movements, symbolising the culture and language of the ancestors of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
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 515 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1511 (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 -2.5° — 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.