Dajiangjunbei
HR 496 · HIP 8068 · φ Per
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.06 mag
- Parallax
- 4.54 mas → about 718.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2Vpe
- Right ascension
- 25.9152°
- Declination
- 50.6887°
- Designation
- HR 496
- Bayer designation
- φ Per
- HIP number
- 8068
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-08-25
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- 天大将军, “Celestial Grand General” is an important constellation in ancient China. As the determinative star was already named, WGSN named the northernmost star "The Northern one of The Great General" (Dajiangjunbei).
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 718 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1308 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 50.7° — 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.