Sukhurmashu
HR 7747 · HIP 100027 · α1 Cap
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.27 mag
- Parallax
- 5.73 mas → about 569.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G3Ib
- Right ascension
- 304.412°
- Declination
- -12.5082°
- Designation
- HR 7747
- Bayer designation
- α1 Cap
- HIP number
- 100027
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-16
- Name language
- Akkadian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Sukhurmashu is the Akkadian original name for this goat-fish; it was considered a benevolent and philanthropic daemon that helps humans to stay healthy and vivid.
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 569 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1457 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -12.5° — 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.