Bake-eo
HR 6629 · HIP 87108 · γ Oph
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.75 mag
- Parallax
- 31.73 mas → about 102.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0V
- Right ascension
- 266.9732°
- Declination
- 2.7073°
- Designation
- HR 6629
- Bayer designation
- γ Oph
- HIP number
- 87108
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-08-20
- Name language
- Marshallese
- Name origin (IAU)
- A Marshallese star name for γ Oph. Pronounced "bakey-yew". Both spellings, "Bake-eo" and "Bake Eo" are accepted. The particle "Eo" simply means "here it is, take it", Bake is the spondylus mussel.
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 103 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1923 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 2.7° — 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.