Beemim
HR 1393 · HIP 20535 · υ3 Eri
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.96 mag
- Parallax
- 11.01 mas → about 296.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4III
- Right ascension
- 66.0092°
- Declination
- -34.0168°
- Designation
- HR 1393
- Bayer designation
- υ3 Eri
- HIP number
- 20535
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- corrupted
- Name origin (IAU)
- Spelling variations of this name appeared in medieval sources for star 29 in Eridanus in the Almagest (Upsilon3 Eri), with the Alfonsine Tables (1492, Tabule Astronomice Alfonsi Regis) spelling it as "Beemim".
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 296 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1730 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -34° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.