Kautoki
HR 7056 · HIP 91971 · ζ1 Lyr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.36 mag
- Parallax
- 20.89 mas → about 156.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- Am
- Right ascension
- 281.1932°
- Declination
- 37.6051°
- Designation
- HR 7056
- Bayer designation
- ζ1 Lyr
- HIP number
- 91971
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Kapingamarangi
- Name origin (IAU)
- The name means "handle (kau) of the adze (toki)" and describes an asterism from the Polynesian island of Kapingamarangi.
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 156 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1870 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 37.6° — 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.