Chertan
HR 4359 · HIP 54879 · θ Leo
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.35 mag
- Parallax
- 19.76 mas → about 165.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Right ascension
- 168.56°
- Declination
- 15.4296°
- Designation
- HR 4359
- Bayer designation
- θ Leo
- HIP number
- 54879
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from one spelling of the pre-Islamic Arabian lunar mansion name al-khurtan, "the Two Small Ribs (at or near the breast)," for δ and θ Leo. The more common and apparently correct spelling of the lunar mansion name is al-kharatan, of unknown meaning.
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 165 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1861 (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 15.4° — 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.