Baltesha
HR 5849 · HIP 76952 · γ CrB A
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.05 mag
- Parallax
- 22.33 mas → about 146.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1Vs
- Right ascension
- 235.6857°
- Declination
- 26.2956°
- Designation
- HR 5849
- Bayer designation
- γ CrB A
- HIP number
- 76952
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- (MUL.)BAL.TEŠ2.A (𒀯𒁄𒌨𒀀), the Asterism of Dignity, is an ancient Sumerian constellation in CrB.
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 146 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1880 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 26.3° — 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.