Muscida
HR 3323 · HIP 41704 · ο UMa
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.42 mag
- Parallax
- 18.21 mas → about 179.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G4II-III
- Right ascension
- 127.5661°
- Declination
- 60.7182°
- Designation
- HR 3323
- Bayer designation
- ο UMa
- HIP number
- 41704
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Almagestum 1515: "illa quae est supra extremitatem Musciae" - Bayer (1603) "in naso, barbaris muscida." - attributed to "Barbarians"
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 179 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1847 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 60.7° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.