Shama
HD 99109 · HIP 55664
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.1 mag
- Parallax
- 20.03 mas → about 162.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 5,282 K
- Right ascension
- 171.0723°
- Declination
- -1.5291°
- Designation
- HD 99109
- HIP number
- 55664
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Urdu
- Name origin (IAU)
- Shama is an Urdu literary term meaning a small lamp or flame, symbolic of the light of the star.
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 163 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1863 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -1.5° — 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.