Maasym
HR 6526 · HIP 85693 · λ Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.41 mag
- Parallax
- 8.83 mas → about 369.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3IIIvar
- Right ascension
- 262.6846°
- Declination
- 26.1106°
- Designation
- HR 6526
- Bayer designation
- λ Her
- HIP number
- 85693
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Arabic word al-mi'sam, "the wrist," used in the Arabic Almagest in describing o Her. Wrongly transferred to λ Her in Early Modern times.
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 369 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1657 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 26.1° — 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.