Weixiu
HR 801 · HIP 12719 · 35 Ari
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.67 mag
- Parallax
- 9.51 mas → about 343 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B3V
- Right ascension
- 40.863°
- Declination
- 27.7071°
- Designation
- HR 801
- Bayer designation
- 35 Ari
- HIP number
- 12719
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-10-15
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Wèi (胃, Stomach), or Wèi Xiù (胃宿), is the seventeenth of the Chinese Twenty-Eight Mansions system. It marks the stomach of the super-constellation White Tiger.
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 343 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1683 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 27.7° — 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.