Khambalia
HR 5359 · HIP 69974 · λ Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.52 mag
- Parallax
- 17.49 mas → about 186.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1V
- Right ascension
- 214.7775°
- Declination
- -13.3711°
- Designation
- HR 5359
- Bayer designation
- λ Vir
- HIP number
- 69974
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Coptic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The Coptic (Egyptian) term Khambalia means "Crooked-clawed" (perhaps designating an agricultural device or symbol of secret knowledge); it was used in mantic texts for the star in the foot of Virgo.
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 186 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1840 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -13.4° — 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.