Hoerikwaggo
HR 2261 · HIP 29271 · α Men
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.01 mag
- Parallax
- 98.06 mas → about 33.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5V
- Right ascension
- 92.5603°
- Declination
- -74.753°
- Designation
- HR 2261
- Bayer designation
- α Men
- HIP number
- 29271
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-12-12
- Name language
- San / Khoekhoe
- Name origin (IAU)
- the name of the constellation originally was Mons Mensae (Table Mountain) and not only "table"; this mountain had been called Sea-Mountain by Indigenous ethnics, in the Saan/ Khoe language spelled Huriǂoaxa, simplified in Africaans Hoerikwaggo.
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 33 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1993 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -74.8° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.