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HR 437 · HIP 7097 · η Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.62 mag
- Parallax
- 9.33 mas → about 349.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 22.8709°
- Declination
- 15.3458°
- Designation
- HR 437
- Bayer designation
- η Psc
- HIP number
- 7097
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Arabic
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 350 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1676 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.3° — 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.