Matrichakra
HR 5889 · HIP 77512 · δ CrB
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.63 mag
- Parallax
- 19.18 mas → about 170.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5III-IV
- Right ascension
- 237.3985°
- Declination
- 26.0684°
- Designation
- HR 5889
- Bayer designation
- δ CrB
- HIP number
- 77512
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Sanskrit
- Name origin (IAU)
- Mātrīcakra, The Circle (मातृचक्र), is an Indian name for CrB; the Sanskrit term occurs on historical globes and astrolabes.
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 170 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1856 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 26.1° — 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.