Dabih
HR 7776 · HIP 100345 · β1 Cap
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.08 mag
- Parallax
- 9.98 mas → about 326.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A5:n
- Right ascension
- 305.2528°
- Declination
- -14.7814°
- Designation
- HR 7776
- Bayer designation
- β1 Cap
- HIP number
- 100345
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the pre-Islamic Arabian lunar mansion name sa'd aldhabih, for α and β Cap. Possible meanings for the name are "the Lucky (Stars) of the Slaughterer," or, "Sa'd, the Slaughtering One" (this last using Sa'd as an unspecified proper name). However the exact historical connections are unknown.
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 327 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1699 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -14.8° — 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.