Nganurganity

HR 2646 · HIP 33856 · σ CMa

👁️ Naked-eye

📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.

Star

Apparent magnitude: 3.49 mag
Parallax: 2.91 mas → about 1,120.8 light-years away
Spectral type: K4III
Right ascension: 105.4298°
Declination: -27.9348°
Bayer designation: σ CMa
HIP number: 33856
IAU name adopted: 2017-09-05
Name language: Aboriginal/ Boorong
Name origin (IAU): Nganurganity [ˈŋanuɾˌɡ̊aniɟ̊] is the "Jacky lizard" in the culture of the Boorong, a clan of the indigenous Maligundidj people of northwestern Victoria in Australia, who saw it as an ancestral figure who fights the moon, flanked by two wives, represented by stars on either side of him (δ CMa and ε CMa). The Moon is Mityan, the quoll. Mityan fell in love with one of the wives of Unurgunite and tried to lure her away. Unurgunite discovered Mityan’s trickery and attacked him, leading to a great fight in which Mityan was defeated. The Moon has been wandering the heavens ever since, the scars of the battle still visible on his face as maria. One of the wives (δ CMa) lies further away from Unurgunite and is closer to the Moon than the other wife (ε CMa). This is the wife Mityan tried to lure away. The name was listed as Unurgunite in Stanbridge(1857/61), for initial ng-, which does not occur in English, was typically ignored in transcription of that era. WGSN corrects the spelling.

Constellation

Light from this object takes about 1,121 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 905 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
Declination -27.9° — 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.

HR 2646 · HIP 33856 · σ CMa

👁️ Naked-eye

📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.

Apparent magnitude: 3.49 mag
Parallax: 2.91 mas → about 1,120.8 light-years away
Spectral type: K4III
Right ascension: 105.4298°
Declination: -27.9348°
Bayer designation: σ CMa
HIP number: 33856
IAU name adopted: 2017-09-05
Name language: Aboriginal/ Boorong
Name origin (IAU): Nganurganity [ˈŋanuɾˌɡ̊aniɟ̊] is the "Jacky lizard" in the culture of the Boorong, a clan of the indigenous Maligundidj people of northwestern Victoria in Australia, who saw it as an ancestral figure who fights the moon, flanked by two wives, represented by stars on either side of him (δ CMa and ε CMa). The Moon is Mityan, the quoll. Mityan fell in love with one of the wives of Unurgunite and tried to lure her away. Unurgunite discovered Mityan’s trickery and attacked him, leading to a great fight in which Mityan was defeated. The Moon has been wandering the heavens ever since, the scars of the battle still visible on his face as maria. One of the wives (δ CMa) lies further away from Unurgunite and is closer to the Moon than the other wife (ε CMa). This is the wife Mityan tried to lure away. The name was listed as Unurgunite in Stanbridge(1857/61), for initial ng-, which does not occur in English, was typically ignored in transcription of that era. WGSN corrects the spelling.

Constellation

Light from this object takes about 1,121 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 905 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
Declination -27.9° — 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.