Phyllon Kissinou
23 Com · HIP 61394
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.773 mag
- Parallax
- 10.52 mas → about 310 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0IV
- Right ascension
- 188.7128°
- Declination
- 22.6292°
- Designation
- 23 Com
- HIP number
- 61394
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-05-16
- Name language
- Ancient Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- Contemporary modern astronomers have used the nickname "Kissin"; therefore, the real name was made official. The term originates from the phrase "φύλλοv κισσίνου (phyllon kissinou, an ivy leaf)" in Ptolemy's Almagest. The star might be "multiple or double" according to SIMBAD, so long double name for the visible dot in the sky might be split up to the components later.
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 310 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1716 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 22.6° — 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.