Tupã
HD 108147 · HIP 60644
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.99 mag
- Parallax
- 26.26 mas → about 124.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F8/G0V
- Surface temperature
- 6,255.73 K
- Right ascension
- 186.4428°
- Declination
- -64.0221°
- Designation
- HD 108147
- HIP number
- 60644
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Guarani
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tupã is one of four principle gods of the Guarani Cosmogony in popular Paraguayan folklore that helped the supreme god Ñamandu to create the Universe.
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 124 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1902 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -64° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.