Marfik
HR 6149 · HIP 80883 · λ Oph
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.9 mag
- Parallax
- 18.84 mas → about 173.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Right ascension
- 247.7284°
- Declination
- 1.9839°
- Designation
- HR 6149
- Bayer designation
- λ Oph
- HIP number
- 80883
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied since medieval times from the Arabic word al-marfiq, "the elbow," used in the Arabic Almagest in describing this star. While the medieval transliteration was marsic (with a confusion of f and the long-shaped s), Marfik is an improved spelling of recent times.
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 173 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1853 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 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.