Sagarmatha
HD 100777 · HIP 56572
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.42 mag
- Parallax
- 20.16 mas → about 161.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 5,533 K
- Right ascension
- 173.9647°
- Declination
- -4.7557°
- Designation
- HD 100777
- HIP number
- 56572
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Nepali
- Name origin (IAU)
- Sagarmatha is the Nepali name for the highest peak in the world (also known as Mount Everest) and symbol of national pride of Nepal.
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 162 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1864 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.4 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -4.8° — 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.