Shakh
HR 7488 · HIP 96837 · β Sge
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.38 mag
- Parallax
- 7.42 mas → about 439.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8II
- Right ascension
- 295.2622°
- Declination
- 17.476°
- Designation
- HR 7488
- Bayer designation
- β Sge
- HIP number
- 96837
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- ŠAḪ, Pig, is a Sumerian constellation attested in MUL.APIN (dating between 1350 and 1150 BCE). The two stars Alpha and Beta Sagittae look like the nose of the Mesopotamian constellation The Pig. WGSN applies the name to Beta.
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 440 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1586 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 17.5° — 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.