Zaniah
HR 4689 · HIP 60129 · η Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.9 mag
- Parallax
- 12.29 mas → about 265.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2IV
- Right ascension
- 184.9764°
- Declination
- -0.666796°
- Designation
- HR 4689
- Bayer designation
- η Vir
- HIP number
- 60129
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From an abbreviation of the pre-Islamic Arabian name zawiyat al-'awwa', "the Angle of al-'awwa'," for γ Vir. Wrongly transferred to η Vir in recent times.
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 265 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1761 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -0.7° — 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.