Bibing
HR 1239 · HIP 18724 · λ Tau
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.41 mag
- Parallax
- 6.74 mas → about 483.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B3V + A
- Right ascension
- 60.1701°
- Declination
- 12.4903°
- Designation
- HR 1239
- Bayer designation
- λ Tau
- HIP number
- 18724
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-17
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bibing (畢柄), The handle of the Net (Lunar Mansion) in the super-constellation of the White Tiger of the West, attested in ancient China for more than 2000 years.
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 484 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1542 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 12.5° — 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.