Kaffaljidhma
HR 804 · HIP 12706 · γ Cet
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.47 mag
- Parallax
- 40.97 mas → about 79.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A3V
- Right ascension
- 40.8249°
- Declination
- 3.2358°
- Designation
- HR 804
- Bayer designation
- γ Cet
- HIP number
- 12706
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Arabic الكف الجذماء, al-kaf al-jaðmāʾ ('the cut-short hand') is given as a star name in Allen (1899) with reference to an Arabic name for the asterism of Cetus'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 80 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1946 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 3.2° — 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.