Fawaris
HR 7528 · HIP 97165 · δ Cyg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.87 mag
- Parallax
- 19.77 mas → about 165 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9.5III
- Right ascension
- 296.2437°
- Declination
- 45.1308°
- Designation
- HR 7528
- Bayer designation
- δ Cyg
- HIP number
- 97165
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- al-Fawāris (الفوارس), "the Riders" is an in indigenous Arabic asterism consisting of at least four stars. WGSN applied the name of the group to one of its members that now preserves (pars pro toto) the Indigenous heritage.
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 165 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1861 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 45.1° — 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.