Rasalnaqa
HR 8965 · HIP 116631 · ι And
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.29 mag
- Parallax
- 6.53 mas → about 499.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8V
- Right ascension
- 354.5342°
- Declination
- 43.2681°
- Designation
- HR 8965
- Bayer designation
- ι And
- HIP number
- 116631
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-05-08
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The group of stars that Ptolemy called "The Hand of Andromeda" is also called "The Head of the She-Camel" in an Indigenous Arabian tradition. as-Sufi (11th c. CE) combines these two traditions, and so does IAU by naming one of the star after "the hand" and the other one "the camel's head"
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 499 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1527 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 43.3° — 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.