Almighzal
HR 7615 · HIP 98110 · η Cyg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.88 mag
- Parallax
- 24.17 mas → about 134.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0IIIvar
- Right ascension
- 299.0765°
- Declination
- 35.0834°
- Designation
- HR 7615
- Bayer designation
- η Cyg
- HIP number
- 98110
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-16
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Wool Spindle – central Saudi Arabia. The constellation is used in a contemporary oral tradition by the ordinary people.
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 135 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1891 (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 35.1° — 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.