Mekbuda
HR 2650 · HIP 34088 · ζ Gem
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.79 mag
- Parallax
- 2.37 mas → about 1,376.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G3Ibv SB
- Right ascension
- 106.0272°
- Declination
- 20.5703°
- Designation
- HR 2650
- Bayer designation
- ζ Gem
- HIP number
- 34088
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From an abbreviation of the pre-Islamic Arabian asterism name dhira' al-asad al-maqbuqa, "the Lion's Folded Paw". Arbitrarily applied as a star name to ζ Gem 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 1,376 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 650 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 20.6° — 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.