Muliphein
HR 2657 · HIP 34045 · γ CMa
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.12 mag
- Parallax
- 7.38 mas → about 441.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8II
- Right ascension
- 105.9396°
- Declination
- -15.6333°
- Designation
- HR 2657
- Bayer designation
- γ CMa
- HIP number
- 34045
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The formation of this name begins with the Arabic names hadari and al-wazn. In Arabic discussions of these names it came to be said that they were muhlifan, meaning "two [things] causing dispute [in this case as to these stars' identification] and the swearing of an oath". From this usage, al-muhlifan was wrongly taken as a name for hadari and al-wazn together. Transliterated and further mutilated as "Muliphein", the name was arbitrarily applied to the single star γ CMa in recent times.
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 442 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1584 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -15.6° — 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.