Syrma
HR 5338 · HIP 69701 · ι Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.08 mag
- Parallax
- 44.97 mas → about 72.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F7V
- Right ascension
- 214.0036°
- Declination
- -6.0005°
- Designation
- HR 5338
- Bayer designation
- ι Vir
- HIP number
- 69701
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Greek word σύρμα, "train of a dress", used by Ptolemy in the Almagest in describing this star. The word was applied as a star name in recent times.
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 73 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1953 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -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.