Matza
HIP 65426 · HIP 65426
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.01 mag
- Parallax
- 10.21 mas → about 319.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Surface temperature
- 8,840 K
- Right ascension
- 201.1505°
- Declination
- -51.5044°
- Designation
- HIP 65426
- HIP number
- 65426
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Zoque
- Name origin (IAU)
- Matza refers to “a star in the sky” or “somebody that shines within” in the language of the Zoque people.
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 319 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1707 (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 -51.5° — 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.