Arkab Prior
HR 7337 · HIP 95241 · β1 Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.01 mag
- Parallax
- 10.4 mas → about 313.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9V
- Right ascension
- 290.6596°
- Declination
- -44.459°
- Designation
- HR 7337
- Bayer designation
- β1 Sgr
- HIP number
- 95241
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-10-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of its name for the Arabic Almagest period 'urqub al-rami, "the Archer's Achilles Tendon."
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 314 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1712 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -44.5° — 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.