HAT-P-5 is a 12th magnitude star in the constellation Lyra, approximately 1,000 light years away from Earth.
It is a spectral type G star, about 1.16 solar masses and radii greater than the Sun, and only 200 kelvins hotter.
The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Slovakia, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU.
Chasoň is an ancient Slovak term for Sun.
[8][9] On October 9, 2007, a report was submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters telling of the discovery of an exoplanet transiting HAT-P-5.