Kenemu
HR 7340 · HIP 95168 · ρ1 Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.93 mag
- Parallax
- 25.69 mas → about 127 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F0III/IV
- Right ascension
- 290.4182°
- Declination
- -17.8472°
- Designation
- HR 7340
- Bayer designation
- ρ1 Sgr
- HIP number
- 95168
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- (Stars of) Kenmu, 17th decan in ancient Egyptian astral science, heliacal rise in month Peret, represented by a small group of stars around rho1 Sgr.
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 127 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1899 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -17.8° — 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.