Muning
HR 5933 · HIP 78072 · γ Ser
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.84 mag
- Parallax
- 88.86 mas → about 36.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F6V
- Right ascension
- 239.1133°
- Declination
- 15.6616°
- Designation
- HR 5933
- Bayer designation
- γ Ser
- HIP number
- 78072
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-01
- Name language
- Wardaman
- Name origin (IAU)
- Muning, "the Small Rock Cod," is a name for two stars (γ and β Ser) in Serpens from the Australian Wardaman people whose Elders approved the name for γ Ser.
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 37 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1989 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.7° — 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.