Heng
HR 5190 · HIP 67464 · ν Cen
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.386 mag
- Parallax
- 7.47 mas → about 436.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2IV
- Right ascension
- 207.3762°
- Declination
- -41.6877°
- Designation
- HR 5190
- Bayer designation
- ν Cen
- HIP number
- 67464
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-03-16
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Heng is an old Chinese name of a constellation within the super-constellation of Kulou, The Arsenal. The translation is not certain; probably a measuring device.
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 437 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1589 (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 -41.7° — 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.