- Stars with a name
- Danfeng
Danfeng
HIP 115211
Danfeng is a red star, in the constellation Tucana. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1940.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never rises: it belongs to the southern sky.
Very faint: you’ll need a telescope. Apparent magnitude 11.03.
What it’s like
It gives off about 2.3% of the Sun’s light.
Its surface is at about 3,900 degrees.
It is 86.0 light years away: 814 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1940: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.