Miram
HR 834 · HIP 13268 · η Per
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.79 mag
- Parallax
- 3.71 mas → about 879.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3Ib comp SB
- Right ascension
- 42.6742°
- Declination
- 55.8955°
- Designation
- HR 834
- Bayer designation
- η Per
- HIP number
- 13268
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- perhaps a misspelling of the Arabic term مِعْصَم miʽṣam, The Wrist, which was used for naming κ Per "Misam" in the CSN.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 879 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1147 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 55.9° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.