Tislit
WASP-161
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Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 10.77 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 343.08 pc (≈ 1,119 light-years)
- Surface temperature
- 6,400 K
- Right ascension
- 126.3378°
- Declination
- -11.501°
- Designation
- WASP-161
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Amazigh
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tislit is the name of a lake in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. It means the bride in the Amazigh language and it is associated with a heartbroken beautiful girl in an ancient local legend.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 1,119 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 907 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -11.5° — 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.