Cujam
HR 6117 · HIP 80463 · ω Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.58 mag
- Parallax
- 13.04 mas → about 250.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9p Cr
- Right ascension
- 246.354°
- Declination
- 14.0333°
- Designation
- HR 6117
- Bayer designation
- ω Her
- HIP number
- 80463
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Latin word caiam, "club" (in the accusative case, nominative case "caia"), see Kunitzsch and Smart (2006). The Greek term for "club" is already a star name in Eratosthenes (Pamias and Zucker 2013).
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 250 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1776 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 14° — 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.