Skat
HR 8709 · HIP 113136 · δ Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.28 mag
- Parallax
- 20.31 mas → about 160.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A3V
- Right ascension
- 343.6625°
- Declination
- -15.8208°
- Designation
- HR 8709
- Bayer designation
- δ Aqr
- HIP number
- 113136
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied with various spellings since medieval times, from the Arabic word al-saq, "the shin", used in the Arabic Almagest in describing this star.
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 161 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1865 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -15.8° — 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.