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A dedicated star
Malmok
pale · Virgo · V732 Vir
Dedicated to
Maya
by Her sister, June · August 12, 2026
“You were born on the brightest night of my life. Whenever you feel small, remember: there is a star that has carried your name since before you could read it, and it is still up there, still burning, still yours.”
This dedication
- Dedicated to
- Maya
- Dedicated by
- Her sister, June
- Recorded
- August 12, 2026
- Held until
- August 12, 2027
When this dedication ends, Malmok becomes available again. Want it? Put the date in your calendar.
Malmok at a glance
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Other name
- V732 Vir
- Catalogue number
- V732 Vir · WASP-39
- Distance
- ≈ 702 light-years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 11.89 telescope
- Colour
- pale
- Best seen from
- Almost everywhere on Earth
- Right ascension
- 14h 29m 18s
- Declination
- −03° 26′ 40″
J2000 catalogue coordinates that can be independently cross-checked against astronomical databases. A planetarium app showing coordinates of date will differ slightly, because proper motion and precession move a star’s apparent position over time.
What kind of star is Malmok?
Malmok is catalogued as a pale star and its spectral type is not cleanly classified in the data behind this page, so what follows stays with what has been measured rather than what could be inferred from it.
The light you are looking at is old
Malmok is about 702 light years away, so the light reaching you now set out around 1324. You are not looking at the star as it is. You are looking at the star as it was, and there is no way to see it any other way.
That delay is the part people find hardest and like most. A star is the one thing you can give someone that was already old before either of you was born and will outlast anything else you could have chosen.
It sits at the edge of what an unaided eye can do, so finding it is a deliberate act rather than an accident.
Where can you see Malmok?
It sits 3° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 87°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 3°S. It stands highest at midnight in April, so April and May evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.89 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
Malmok belongs to Virgo.
What does Malmok mean in astrology?
The classical fixed-star tradition: Ptolemy, the medieval Behenian lists, Robson’s 1923 compilation. Is silent on Malmok, and we don’t invent lore where none exists. What astrology can still read is the star’s real position, below.
Projected onto the zodiac the way fixed-star astrology reads any star, Malmok stands at 6° Scorpio at the J2000 epoch, and the Sun passes that degree around 25 October in the years around 2000. Fixed-star longitude shifts slowly against the tropical zodiac because of precession, about one degree every seventy-two years, so a natal conjunction must be calculated for the birth year rather than read off this J2000 value or a calendar date.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. The position and dates are computed.
Frequently asked questions about Malmok
- What does Malmok mean in astrology?
- The classical fixed-star tradition has no documented meaning for Malmok. Projected onto the zodiac, Malmok stands at 6° Scorpio, and the Sun passes that degree each year around 25 October.
- Is Malmok the brightest star?
- Malmok shines at magnitude 11.89 · a binocular-and-telescope star, one of the few thousand stars with an officially recognised name.
- How far away is Malmok?
- Malmok is approximately 702 light-years from Earth. The light reaching us tonight began its journey around 702 years ago.
- Which constellation contains Malmok?
- Malmok is part of Virgo.
- Can everyone see Malmok?
- It sits 3° south of the celestial equator, so it clears the horizon everywhere short of latitude 87°N, in practice, every inhabited latitude on Earth. It passes directly overhead at latitude 3°S. It stands highest at midnight in April, so April and May evenings are the best time to look. At magnitude 11.89 it sits below naked-eye reach; binoculars or a small telescope will find it.
- Is dedicating Malmok an official astronomical renaming?
- No. Malmok keeps its internationally recognised astronomical name. An AsterNym dedication records your personal name and message in the AsterNym registry without changing the star's scientific identity.
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