Marsic
* kap Her · HIP 79043 · κ Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.994 mag
- Parallax
- 8.87 mas → about 367.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 242.0189°
- Declination
- 17.047°
- Designation
- * kap Her
- Bayer designation
- κ Her
- HIP number
- 79043
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in medieval times from the Arabic word al-marfiq, "the elbow," used in the Arabic Almagest in describing this star.
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 368 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1658 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 17° — 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.