Cervantes
HR 6585 · HIP 86796 · μ Ara
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.15 mag
- Parallax
- 64.47 mas → about 50.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5V
- Surface temperature
- 5,773 K
- Right ascension
- 266.0363°
- Declination
- -51.8341°
- Designation
- HR 6585
- Bayer designation
- μ Ara
- HIP number
- 86796
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Spanish
- Name origin (IAU)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a famous Spanish writer and author of "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha".
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 51 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1975 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -51.8° — 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.