Sualocin
HR 7906 · HIP 101958 · α Del
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.8 mag
- Parallax
- 12.85 mas → about 253.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9V
- Right ascension
- 309.9095°
- Declination
- 15.9122°
- Designation
- HR 7906
- Bayer designation
- α Del
- HIP number
- 101958
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- reversed Latin Nicolaus Venator, responsible for 1814 star catalogue)
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 254 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1772 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.9° — 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.