Biham
HR 8450 · HIP 109427 · θ Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.55 mag
- Parallax
- 35.34 mas → about 92.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Right ascension
- 332.55°
- Declination
- 6.1979°
- Designation
- HR 8450
- Bayer designation
- θ Peg
- HIP number
- 109427
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of the pre-Islamic Arabian name sa'd al-biham, for θ and ν Peg. A possible meaning for the name is "the Lucky (Stars) of the Young Beasts [lambs, kids, and the like]," but 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 92 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1934 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 6.2° — 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.