- Stars with a name
- Taiyi
Taiyi
8 Draconis
Taiyi is a white star, in the constellation Draco. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1930.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 5.23.
What it’s like
It gives off 6.0 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 7,400 degrees.
It is 95.5 light years away: 904 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1930: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.