Chara
HR 4785 · HIP 61317 · β CVn
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.25 mag
- Parallax
- 118.49 mas → about 27.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0V
- Right ascension
- 188.4356°
- Declination
- 41.3575°
- Designation
- HR 4785
- Bayer designation
- β CVn
- HIP number
- 61317
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in Early Modern times from the Greek word χαρά, "joy", that was used by Hevelius in 1690 to name the southern dog (marked by α and β CVn) in his new constellation Canes Vanatici.
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 28 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1998 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 41.4° — 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.