Minchir
HR 3418 · HIP 42402 · σ Hya
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.43 mag
- Parallax
- 8.75 mas → about 372.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2III
- Right ascension
- 129.6893°
- Declination
- 3.3414°
- Designation
- HR 3418
- Bayer designation
- σ Hya
- HIP number
- 42402
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Minchir appeared in Bode's 1801 Uranographia rooting in the Arabic term منخر الشجاع minkhar ash-shujāʽ "the nostril brave one" in Hydra.
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 373 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1653 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 3.3° — 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.