Guansuo
HR 5778 · HIP 76127 · θ CrB A
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.3 mag
- Parallax
- 8.69 mas → about 375.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6Vnn
- Right ascension
- 233.2324°
- Declination
- 31.3591°
- Designation
- HR 5778
- Bayer designation
- θ CrB A
- HIP number
- 76127
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Guàn Suǒ (Coiled Thong, 贯索), a Chinese constellation of 9 stars in CrB. It resembles a string threaded through a series of copper coins, attested since ancient 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 375 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1651 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 31.4° — 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.