Maenalus
HR 5511 · HIP 72220 · 109 Virginis
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.73 mag
- Parallax
- 24.25 mas → about 134.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0V
- Right ascension
- 221.5622°
- Declination
- 1.8929°
- Designation
- HR 5511
- Bayer designation
- 109 Virginis
- HIP number
- 72220
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-04-15
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Mons Maenalus is an early modern European constellation or asterism introduced by Hevelius (1690), setting a celestial memorial for a mountain in the central Peloponnese, Greece.
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 134 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1892 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 1.9° — 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.