Xamidimura
HR 6247 · HIP 82514 · μ1 Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.98 mag
- Parallax
- 6.51 mas → about 501 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B1.5IV + B
- Right ascension
- 252.9676°
- Declination
- -38.0474°
- Designation
- HR 6247
- Bayer designation
- μ1 Sco
- HIP number
- 82514
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Khoekhoe
- Name origin (IAU)
- Originally spelled as three word "xami di mura" means "eyes of the beast" in the Khoekhoe language (South Africa). The term designates two stars which is why it was suggested (Hahn 1881) to refer to μ Sco as this star appears as a visual pair of two dots of light. Yet, today's identification popularized by the SAAO differs.
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 501 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1525 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -38° — 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.