Mimosa
HR 4853 · HIP 62434 · β Cru
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.25 mag
- Parallax
- 11.71 mas → about 278.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B0.5III
- Right ascension
- 191.9303°
- Declination
- -59.6888°
- Designation
- HR 4853
- Bayer designation
- β Cru
- HIP number
- 62434
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times, and of unknown astronomical significance. It is from the Latin word mimus, "an actor", and is otherwise known as the genus name for certain tropical plants.
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 279 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1747 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 1.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -59.7° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.