Felis
HR 3923 · HIP 48615
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.94 mag
- Parallax
- 5.31 mas → about 614.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5III
- Right ascension
- 148.7175°
- Declination
- -19.0093°
- Designation
- HR 3923
- HIP number
- 48615
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Felis (The Cat) is the name of a constellation invented by Lalande. The name is applied to one star in the area that the constellation covered.
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 614 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1412 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -19° — 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.