Kang
HR 5315 · HIP 69427 · κ Vir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.21 mag
- Parallax
- 12.8 mas → about 254.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3III
- Right ascension
- 213.2239°
- Declination
- -10.2737°
- Designation
- HR 5315
- Bayer designation
- κ Vir
- HIP number
- 69427
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- determinitive star of lunar mansion Kang (The Neck) whose naming constellation constists of 4 stars according to sources back to the 3rd millennium BCE
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 255 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1771 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -10.3° — 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.