Tepiamenit
HR 5185 · HIP 67275 · τ Bootis
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.49 mag
- Parallax
- 64.03 mas → about 50.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F7V
- Right ascension
- 206.8156°
- Declination
- 17.4569°
- Designation
- HR 5185
- Bayer designation
- τ Bootis
- HIP number
- 67275
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-04-15
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Menit, The Mooring Post, is an Egyptian constellation, preserved in Ramesside Star Clocks of the 2nd millennium BCE. Tepiamenit is the "Predecessor of the Pole" inside Menit.
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 51 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1975 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 17.5° — 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.