Ninnisig
HR 7314 · HIP 94713 · θ Lyr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.38 mag
- Parallax
- 3.92 mas → about 832 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0II
- Right ascension
- 289.0921°
- Declination
- 38.1337°
- Designation
- HR 7314
- Bayer designation
- θ Lyr
- HIP number
- 94713
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ninnisig and Erragal are two Sumerian gods associated with the pair of stars, Ninnisig is the goddess who is butcher of the highest temple (name honours a profession).
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 832 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1194 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 38.1° — 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.