Sargas

HR 6553 · HIP 86228 · θ Sco

👁️ Naked-eye

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Star

Apparent magnitude: 1.85 mag
Parallax: 10.86 mas → about 300.3 light-years away
Spectral type: F1II
Right ascension: 264.3297°
Declination: -42.9978°
Designation: HR 6553
Bayer designation: θ Sco
HIP number: 86228
IAU name adopted: 2016-08-21
Name language: Sumerian
Name origin (IAU): MUL.SHAR.GAZ, "mul" is the Sumerian designator for stars and constellations, "Shargaz" and "Sharur" are two weapons of Marduk (the city god of Babylon and highest god of the Babylonian pantheon after 1250 BCE). The line I ii 31-32 in MUL.APIN read: "Two stars which stand in the sting of the Scorpion: Sharur and Shargaz", so these star names have originally been given to the stars lambda and upsilon Sco. The Mesopotamian name "Sargas" was linked to the star Theta Sco by Robert Brown Jr. (1893; "Euphratean Stellar Researches Part II.") and its subsequent mention in R. H. Allen's (1899) "Star-names and Their Meanings" popularized its subsequent use.

Constellation

Light from this object takes about 300 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1726 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
Declination -43° — 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.

HR 6553 · HIP 86228 · θ Sco

👁️ Naked-eye

📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.

Apparent magnitude: 1.85 mag
Parallax: 10.86 mas → about 300.3 light-years away
Spectral type: F1II
Right ascension: 264.3297°
Declination: -42.9978°
Designation: HR 6553
Bayer designation: θ Sco
HIP number: 86228
IAU name adopted: 2016-08-21
Name language: Sumerian
Name origin (IAU): MUL.SHAR.GAZ, "mul" is the Sumerian designator for stars and constellations, "Shargaz" and "Sharur" are two weapons of Marduk (the city god of Babylon and highest god of the Babylonian pantheon after 1250 BCE). The line I ii 31-32 in MUL.APIN read: "Two stars which stand in the sting of the Scorpion: Sharur and Shargaz", so these star names have originally been given to the stars lambda and upsilon Sco. The Mesopotamian name "Sargas" was linked to the star Theta Sco by Robert Brown Jr. (1893; "Euphratean Stellar Researches Part II.") and its subsequent mention in R. H. Allen's (1899) "Star-names and Their Meanings" popularized its subsequent use.

Constellation

Light from this object takes about 300 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1726 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
Declination -43° — 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.