Bunda
HR 8264 · HIP 106786 · ξ Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.69 mag
- Parallax
- 18.26 mas → about 178.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A7V
- Right ascension
- 324.438°
- Declination
- -7.8542°
- Designation
- HR 8264
- Bayer designation
- ξ Aqr
- HIP number
- 106786
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Persian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bunda is a Persian lunar mansion.
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 179 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1847 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -7.9° — 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.