Alniyat
HR 6084 · HIP 80112 · σ Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.89 mag
- Parallax
- 4.68 mas → about 696.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B1III
- Right ascension
- 245.2971°
- Declination
- -25.5928°
- Designation
- HR 6084
- Bayer designation
- σ Sco
- HIP number
- 80112
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the pre-Islamic Arabian name al-niyat, "the Arteries", for σ and τ Sco. α Sco, between the arteries, was the pre-Islamic Arabian qalb al'aqrab, "the Scorpion's Heart" (all were part of the pre-Islamic Arabian Scorpion).
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 697 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1329 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -25.6° — 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.