Sharjah
HIP 79431 · HIP 79431
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.34 mag
- Parallax
- 69.46 mas → about 47 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M3 V
- Surface temperature
- 3,191 K
- Right ascension
- 243.1741°
- Declination
- -18.8755°
- Designation
- HIP 79431
- HIP number
- 79431
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Sharjah is the cultural capital of United Arab Emirates, and considered the city of knowledge due to its many educational centers, institutes, museums, libraries and heritage centers.
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 47 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1979 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 11.3 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -18.9° — 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.