Intercrus
HR 3743 · HIP 46471
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.393 mag
- Parallax
- 11.65 mas → about 280 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III-IV
- Surface temperature
- 4,797 K
- Right ascension
- 142.1666°
- Declination
- 45.6015°
- Designation
- HR 3743
- HIP number
- 46471
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Intercrus means "between the legs" in Latin style, referring to the star's position in the constellation Ursa Major.
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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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 280 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1746 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 45.6° — 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.