Pongaponga
HR 7051 · HIP 91919 · ε1 Lyr A
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.991 mag
- Parallax
- 20.09 mas → about 162.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F1V
- Right ascension
- 281.0848°
- Declination
- 39.6701°
- Designation
- HR 7051
- Bayer designation
- ε1 Lyr A
- HIP number
- 91919
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Cook Is. Maori
- Name origin (IAU)
- Pongaponga (“nostrils”) is a star name from the island of Pukapuka (South Pacific) for the visual double star ε1 (4) Lyr and ε2 (5) Lyr. WGSN applies the name to ε1 Lyr A.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 162 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1864 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 39.7° — 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.