Absolutno
XO-5
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.95 mag
- Distance from Earth
- 276.211 pc (≈ 900.9 light-years)
- Spectral type
- G8 V
- Surface temperature
- 5,430 K
- Right ascension
- 116.7165°
- Declination
- 39.0946°
- Designation
- XO-5
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- fictional
- Name origin (IAU)
- Absolutno is a fictional miraculous substance in the sci-fi novel Továrna na absolutno (The Factory for the Absolute) by influential Czech writer Karel Čapek.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · 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 901 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1125 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 12 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 39.1° — 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.