Kraz
HR 4786 · HIP 61359 · β Crv
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.64 mag
- Parallax
- 22.39 mas → about 145.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5II
- Right ascension
- 188.5968°
- Declination
- -23.3968°
- Designation
- HR 4786
- Bayer designation
- β Crv
- HIP number
- 61359
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- unknown
- Name origin (IAU)
- Name of unknown etymology from the "Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso" of Czech astronomer Antonín Bečvář (1901-1965).
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 146 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1880 (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 -23.4° — 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.