Minelauva
HR 4910 · HIP 63090 · δ Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.38 mag
- Parallax
- 16.44 mas → about 198.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M3III
- Right ascension
- 193.9009°
- Declination
- 3.3975°
- Designation
- HR 4910
- Bayer designation
- δ Vir
- HIP number
- 63090
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The 13th Arabic lunar station bears the name العوا) Al-ʿAwwā, The bend. It consists of 5 stars: β, η, γ, δ and ε Vir. "Auva" or "Minelauva" are mediaeval transliterations of this name that now names one of its stars.
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 198 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1828 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 3.4° — 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.