Magur
HR 6862 · HIP 90037 · HIP 90037
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.073 mag
- Parallax
- 6.73 mas → about 484.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4/K5III
- Right ascension
- 275.5774°
- Declination
- -38.6569°
- Designation
- HR 6862
- Bayer designation
- HIP 90037
- HIP number
- 90037
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- MA2.GUR8, The Boat/Ship, is a constellation south of Sgr. It’s identification is given between Cap, Mic, CrA and southern Sgr. As certainty can only be achieved for Late Babylonian sources, WGSN picked a faint star close to the one which represents the Egyptian Boat-constellation.
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 485 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1541 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -38.7° — 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.