Yunü
HD 87837 · HIP 49637 · 31 Leo
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.38 mag
- Parallax
- 11.04 mas → about 295.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4III
- Right ascension
- 151.9761°
- Declination
- 9.9975°
- Designation
- HD 87837
- Bayer designation
- 31 Leo
- HIP number
- 49637
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-07-18
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Yunü御女 is the star in the middle of the southernmost stars of the Xuanyuan轩辕 constellation. The correct transliteration is "Yunü".
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 295 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1731 (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 10° — 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.