Lumbung
HR 4823 · HIP 61966 · 39 Cru
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.94 mag
- Parallax
- 3.41 mas → about 956.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6IV
- Right ascension
- 190.4857°
- Declination
- -59.6858°
- Designation
- HR 4823
- Bayer designation
- 39 Cru
- HIP number
- 61966
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-02-22
- Name language
- Malay
- Name origin (IAU)
- The term "Lumbung" is inherited from Malay, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, designating a quickly set up rice barn or granary. The constellation of Lumbung is attested for ~1300 years in the cultural calendar and associated with Wednesday and the third day of an Oceanic market cycle.
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 956 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1070 (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 -59.7° — 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.