Apamvatsa
HR 5095 · HIP 66006 · 74 Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.69 mag
- Parallax
- 8.16 mas → about 399.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M3III
- Right ascension
- 202.9912°
- Declination
- -6.2558°
- Designation
- HR 5095
- Bayer designation
- 74 Vir
- HIP number
- 66006
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-10-16
- Name language
- Sanskrit
- Name origin (IAU)
- Apāṃvatsa (अपऻऺवत्स), "calf of the waters" (or: "the smaller one"), is an Indian star name attested throughout the last millennium. The only indication of the position is Apamvatsa is 5° to the north of Citrā (चित्रा) (Spica) in Virgo, attested in several historical documents.
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 400 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1626 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -6.3° — 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.