Koit
Sign in to saveXO-4 is a star located approximately 863 light-years away from Earth in the Lynx constellation. It has a magnitude of about 11 and cannot be seen with the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at MMT Observatory was negative.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Em*
- Spectral type
- F5
- Distance
- 863 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000004312993051813763
- Coordinates
- RA 110.3882° · Dec 58.2681°
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- catalog code
- TIC 51234631
- effective temperature
- 5700
- spectral class
- F5
- metallicity
- 0
- radial velocity
- -3.18
- apparent magnitude
- 10.515098
- parallax
- 3.7812
- epoch
- J2000.0
- stellar rotational velocity
- 8.8
- surface gravity
- 62000
- name
- Koit
- luminosity
- 3.4322722
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -17.008
- declination component of proper motion
- 5.463
- right ascension
- 110.38816768115
- declination
- 58.26808598149002
- age estimated by a dating method
- 2.1
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XO-4 is a star located approximately 863 light-years away from Earth in the Lynx constellation. It has a magnitude of about 11 and cannot be seen with the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at MMT Observatory was negative.
The star XO-4 is named Koit. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Estonia, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Koit is Estonian for dawn, and was named for a character in a folk tale written by Friedrich Robert Faehlmann.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.