Kalasungsang
HR 5429 · HIP 71053 · ρ Bootis
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.59 mag
- Parallax
- 20.37 mas → about 160.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3III
- Right ascension
- 217.9575°
- Declination
- 30.3714°
- Designation
- HR 5429
- Bayer designation
- ρ Bootis
- HIP number
- 71053
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-04-15
- Name language
- Sanskrit, Javanese
- Name origin (IAU)
- On Bali (Indonesia) "Kala" means "demon" and "sungsang" means "upside down". Originally, the term is from Sanskrit काल, dark/ death or time. The daemon reminds us not to waste time.
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 160 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1866 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 30.4° — 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.