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Hunor
Hunor: the yellow-white star of Hercules
yellow-white · Hercules · HAT-P-2
Hunor is a yellow-white star, a near cousin of our own Sun's colour in the constellation Hercules, one of the stars with a proper name recognised in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. At magnitude 8.72 it is a binocular or telescope object.
Most stars in the sky are anonymous points of light. Hunor is not. Some IAU-recognised names are ancient; others were adopted by the IAU only recently. Either way, the star already has a scientific identity, and a dedication attaches a human story to it.
Real star · Personal dedication · Recorded in the AsterNym registry
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Hunor at a glance
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Other name
- HAT-P-2
- Catalogue number
- HIP 80076
- Distance
- ≈ 373 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 8.72 telescope
- Star type
- F8
- Colour
- yellow-white
- Best seen from
- The Northern Hemisphere and lower southern latitudes
- Right ascension
- 16h 20m 36s
- Declination
- +41° 02′ 53″
J2000 catalogue coordinates that can be independently cross-checked against astronomical databases. A planetarium app showing coordinates of date will differ slightly, because proper motion and precession move a star’s apparent position over time.
What kind of star is Hunor?
Hunor is a yellow-white star. Its surface runs about 6,000 to 7,500°C, a shade hotter than the Sun. Colour in a star is a temperature reading rather than a decoration: the hot ones are blue and the cool ones red, the opposite way round to a kitchen tap.
A little brighter and a little shorter-lived than the Sun, and near the edge of the range where a planet could plausibly hold liquid water for long enough to matter.
A star of this class gets two to four thousand million years.
Hunor drifts about 3.2 arcseconds a century against the stars behind it. Slow by any human measure, and still enough that the sky your distant descendants see will not be the one in your photographs.
The light you are looking at is old
The light arriving from Hunor tonight left in about 1653, some 373 years ago. Everything that has happened since, every person you have heard of from the last few centuries, happened while it was in transit.
That delay is the part people find hardest and like most. A star is the one thing you can give someone that was already old before either of you was born and will outlast anything else you could have chosen.
It sits at the edge of what an unaided eye can do, so finding it is a deliberate act rather than an accident.
What could a Hunor dedication represent?
Hunor is especially meaningful for someone who:
- · Deserves something older than any gift shop
- · Marks a beginning, an anniversary or a promise
- · Is remembered every time you look up
- · Has a light you want recorded somewhere permanent
Dedication idea
“For the one I think of when I find Hercules in the sky.”
Where can you see Hunor?
It is easy to see from most of the Northern Hemisphere. It can also appear from lower southern latitudes, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 49°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 41°N. It stands highest at midnight in May, so May and June evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 8.72 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Hunor belongs to Hercules.
What does Hunor mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Hunor, and we don’t invent lore where none exists. What astrology can still read is the star’s real position, below.
Projected onto the zodiac the way fixed-star astrology reads any star, Hunor stands at 19° Scorpio at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 8 November in the years around 2000. Fixed-star longitude shifts slowly against the tropical zodiac because of precession, about one degree every seventy-two years, so a natal conjunction must be calculated for the birth year rather than read off this J2000 value or a calendar date.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. The position and dates are computed.
Dedicate Hunor to someone who matters
A flower fades. A card is eventually put away. A star gives your message a place in the sky.
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Dedicate Hunor →Real star · your message · a page to share
Your Hunor dedication includes
- Your chosen dedication name
- Your personal message
- Hunor's real astronomical coordinates
- A shareable dedication page
- Its location on the AsterNym Galaxy Map
- An optional printable certificate and gift presentation
Hunor keeps its established astronomical name. Your dedication is a personal commemorative record within the AsterNym registry.
Frequently asked questions about Hunor
- What does Hunor mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Hunor. Projected onto the zodiac, Hunor stands at 19° Scorpio, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 8 November.
- Is Hunor the brightest star?
- Hunor shines at magnitude 8.72 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Hunor?
- Hunor is approximately 373 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 373 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Hunor?
- Hunor is part of Hercules.
- Can everyone see Hunor?
- It is easy to see from most of the Northern Hemisphere. It can also appear from lower southern latitudes, but it never rises for observers south of about latitude 49°S. It passes directly overhead at latitude 41°N. It stands highest at midnight in May, so May and June evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 8.72 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Hunor an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Hunor keeps its internationally recognised astronomical name. An AsterNym dedication records your personal name and message in the AsterNym registry without changing the star's scientific identity.
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