Gouguo
HR 7650 · HIP 98688 · c Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.58 mag
- Parallax
- 7.27 mas → about 448.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M4III
- Right ascension
- 300.6645°
- Declination
- -27.7098°
- Designation
- HR 7650
- Bayer designation
- c Sgr
- HIP number
- 98688
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Gŏu Guó (狗国, Territory of Dog), is a traditional Chinese asterism that corresponds to the non-Han peoples of northern and northeastern China.
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 449 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1577 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -27.7° — 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.