Ramus
HR 6787 · HIP 88886 · 102 Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.347 mag
- Parallax
- 3.56 mas → about 916.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2IV
- Right ascension
- 272.1895°
- Declination
- 20.8146°
- Designation
- HR 6787
- Bayer designation
- 102 Her
- HIP number
- 88886
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-06-17
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ramus, The Branch (of golden apples), is an addition to the early modern asterism Cerberus in Hercules. The name occurs in Bayer (1603) as a term but in depiction only later.
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 916 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1110 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 20.8° — 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.