Sulafat
HR 7178 · HIP 93194 · γ Lyr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.25 mag
- Parallax
- 5.26 mas → about 620.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9III
- Right ascension
- 284.7359°
- Declination
- 32.6896°
- Designation
- HR 7178
- Bayer designation
- γ Lyr
- HIP number
- 93194
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic constellation name al-sulabfat, "the Tortoise," for Lyra, corresponding to the Greek image of a tortoise shell for the Lyre's soundboard.
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 620 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1406 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 32.7° — 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.