Alkarab
HR 8905 · HIP 115623 · υ Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.4 mag
- Parallax
- 19.14 mas → about 170.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F8IV
- Right ascension
- 351.3449°
- Declination
- 23.4041°
- Designation
- HR 8905
- Bayer designation
- υ Peg
- HIP number
- 115623
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- traditional Arabic name Al Karab, The Bucket-rope, was an asterism consisting of τ and υ Peg
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 170 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1856 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 23.4° — 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.