Porrima
HR 4825 · HIP 61941 · γ Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.74 mag
- Parallax
- 85.58 mas → about 38.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F0V+...
- Right ascension
- 190.4151°
- Declination
- -1.4494°
- Designation
- HR 4825
- Bayer designation
- γ Vir
- HIP number
- 61941
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- The name of a Roman goddess, one of several mythological names mentioned in connection with the constellation Virgo. Applied as a star name in recent times.
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 38 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1988 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -1.4° — 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.