Chugao
HR 708 · HIP 11345 · ρ Cet
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.866 mag
- Parallax
- 7.15 mas → about 456.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0V
- Right ascension
- 36.4875°
- Declination
- -12.2905°
- Designation
- HR 708
- Bayer designation
- ρ Cet
- HIP number
- 11345
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-10-15
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Chú Gǎo (蒭藁, Hay) is a Chinese asterism west of Tiānyuàn (天苑, Celestial Meadow) and is attested for more than 2000 years.
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 456 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1570 (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 -12.3° — 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.