Dhanishta
HR 7947 · HIP 102531 · γ1 Del
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.96 mag
- Parallax
- 26.35 mas → about 123.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2Ia+...
- Right ascension
- 311.6619°
- Declination
- 16.1241°
- Designation
- HR 7947
- Bayer designation
- γ1 Del
- HIP number
- 102531
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-16
- Name language
- Sanskrit
- Name origin (IAU)
- one of the Nakshatras, a constellation, depicted as an (unnumbered) multitude of stars
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 124 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1902 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 16.1° — 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.