Qigong
HR 5681 · HIP 74666 · δ Bootis A
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.49 mag
- Parallax
- 26.78 mas → about 121.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 228.8757°
- Declination
- 33.3148°
- Designation
- HR 5681
- Bayer designation
- δ Bootis A
- HIP number
- 74666
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-04-15
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Qī Gōng (Seven Excellencies, 七公) is a Chinese asterism composed of seven stars; WGSN named the determinative star after the constellation.
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 122 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1904 (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 33.3° — 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.