Tarazed
HR 7525 · HIP 97278 · γ Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.72 mag
- Parallax
- 8.26 mas → about 394.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3II
- Right ascension
- 296.5649°
- Declination
- 10.6133°
- Designation
- HR 7525
- Bayer designation
- γ Aql
- HIP number
- 97278
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Persian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times (with a misreading) from abbreviating the Persian asterism name shanin-i tarazu, "the Scale Beam", for α, β and γ Aql. The Persian name, in turn, was a medieval translation of these stars' Arabic name al-mizan, "the Balance".
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 395 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1631 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 10.6° — 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.