Albali
HR 7950 · HIP 102618 · ε Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.77 mag
- Parallax
- 15.7 mas → about 207.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1V
- Right ascension
- 311.919°
- Declination
- -9.4958°
- Designation
- HR 7950
- Bayer designation
- ε Aqr
- HIP number
- 102618
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Arabic word bali(, "swallower", used in an Arabic discussion pertaining to the Arabic lunar mansion name sa(d bula( (given for ε, μ and ν Aqr; of unknown meaning). In recent times the Arabic article al- was added to bali( and the word was applied as a star name.
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 208 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1818 (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 -9.5° — 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.