Gienah
HR 4662 · HIP 59803 · γ Crv
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.58 mag
- Parallax
- 21.23 mas → about 153.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8III
- Right ascension
- 183.9515°
- Declination
- -17.5419°
- Designation
- HR 4662
- Bayer designation
- γ Crv
- HIP number
- 59803
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-11-06
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- A name transferred from γ Crv in recent times, where the Arabic word janab means "wing" (in the Almagest, both ε Cyg and γ Crv lie on the wings of their respective constellations)
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 154 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1872 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -17.5° — 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.