Pincoya
HD 164604 · HIP 88414
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 9.66 mag
- Parallax
- 24.35 mas → about 133.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2
- Surface temperature
- 4,663 K
- Right ascension
- 270.7789°
- Declination
- -28.5607°
- Designation
- HD 164604
- HIP number
- 88414
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- NEWC
- Name origin (IAU)
- Pincoya is a female water spirit from southern Chilean mythology who is said to bring drowned sailors to the Caleuche so that they can live in the afterlife.
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 134 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1892 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 9.7 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -28.6° — 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.