Heze
HR 5107 · HIP 66249 · ζ Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.38 mag
- Parallax
- 44.03 mas → about 74.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A3V
- Right ascension
- 203.6733°
- Declination
- -0.595816°
- Designation
- HR 5107
- Bayer designation
- ζ Vir
- HIP number
- 66249
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Greco-Hebrew
- Name origin (IAU)
- Name of unknown etymology from the "Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso" of Czech astronomer Antonín Bečvář (1901-1965). It could refer to God, possibly derived from Ezechiel (one of four prophets from Old Testament). Transcription to the Greek language adds "H" to EZE.
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 74 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1952 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -0.6° — 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.