Tengshe
HR 8726 · HIP 113288
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.94 mag
- Parallax
- 2.04 mas → about 1,598.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5Ibvar
- Right ascension
- 344.1083°
- Declination
- 49.7335°
- Designation
- HR 8726
- HIP number
- 113288
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-09-19
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tengshe螣蛇 or 腾蛇 (Téng Shé, Flying Serpent) is a constellation created by ancient Chinese astrologers, dating back to the 2nd century BCE.
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 1,599 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 427 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 49.7° — 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.