Guniibuu
* 36 Oph · HIP 84405 · 36 Oph
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.08 mag
- Parallax
- 168.54 mas → about 19.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2:III:
- Right ascension
- 258.8366°
- Declination
- -26.6017°
- Designation
- * 36 Oph
- Bayer designation
- 36 Oph
- HIP number
- 84405
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-08-10
- Name language
- Aboriginal/ Kamilaroi/ Euahlayi
- Name origin (IAU)
- Guniibuu is the Kamilaroi/Euahlayi name for the robin red-breast bird (Petroica boodang). A traditional story links Guniibuu with Gidjirrigaa (Budgerigar) the star κ Sco.
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 19 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2007 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -26.6° — 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.