Gajahmina
HR 334 · HIP 5364 · η Cet
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.45 mag
- Parallax
- 26.32 mas → about 123.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2III
- Right ascension
- 17.1475°
- Declination
- -10.1823°
- Designation
- HR 334
- Bayer designation
- η Cet
- HIP number
- 5364
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-10-15
- Name language
- Sanskrit
- Name origin (IAU)
- Gajahmina is derived from the Sanskrit गज, gajah, elephant, and मीन, mīna, fish. The constellation name is preserved as a loanword in Balinese. Philosophically, the Gajah Mina shrine is a symbol of the tremendous power of the King of the Ocean, namely Dewa Baruna.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 124 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1902 (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 -10.2° — 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.