Rosalíadecastro
HD 149143 · HIP 81022
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.89 mag
- Parallax
- 16.12 mas → about 202.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0
- Surface temperature
- 5,856 K
- Right ascension
- 248.2127°
- Declination
- 2.0848°
- Designation
- HD 149143
- HIP number
- 81022
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Rosalia de Castro was a significant figure of Galician culture and prominent Spanish writer, whose pioneeting work often referenced the night and celestial objects.
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 202 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1824 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.9 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 2.1° — 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.