Tonatiuh
HR 4609 · HIP 58952
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.78 mag
- Parallax
- 10.3 mas → about 316.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G9III
- Surface temperature
- 4,738 K
- Right ascension
- 181.3114°
- Declination
- 76.906°
- HIP number
- 58952
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Aztec
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tonatiuh was the Aztec god of the Sun.
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 317 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1709 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 76.9° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.