Rangifer
HR 592 · HIP 9763 · 49 Cas
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.22 mag
- Parallax
- 8.15 mas → about 400.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 31.3815°
- Declination
- 76.1151°
- Designation
- HR 592
- Bayer designation
- 49 Cas
- HIP number
- 9763
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-12-25
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Rangifer, the Reindeer, is an extinct constellation first introduced by Pierre-Charles Le Monnier in 1743 in the book La Théorie des Comètes. He aimed to resemble an Indigenous constellation of the Sami people in Northern Scandinavia, where he had travelled to on a geodetic expedition.
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 400 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1626 (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 76.1° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.