Belel
HD 181342 · HIP 95124
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.55 mag
- Parallax
- 9.04 mas → about 360.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Surface temperature
- 4,945 K
- Right ascension
- 290.2676°
- Declination
- -23.6196°
- Designation
- HD 181342
- HIP number
- 95124
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Wolof
- Name origin (IAU)
- Belel is a rare source of water in the north of Senegal.
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 361 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1665 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.6 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -23.6° — 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.