Gumala
HD 179949 · HIP 94645 · V5652 Sgr
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 6.237 mag
- Parallax
- 36.3 mas → about 89.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F8V
- Surface temperature
- 6,168 K
- Right ascension
- 288.8885°
- Declination
- -24.1794°
- Designation
- HD 179949
- Bayer designation
- V5652 Sgr
- HIP number
- 94645
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Malay
- Name origin (IAU)
- Gumala is a Malay word, which means a magic bezoar stone found in snakes, dragons, etc.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 90 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1936 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 6.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination -24.2° — 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.