Bawy
HR 649 · HIP 10324 · ξ1 Cet
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.35 mag
- Parallax
- 8.51 mas → about 383.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8II:
- Right ascension
- 33.25°
- Declination
- 8.8467°
- Designation
- HR 649
- Bayer designation
- ξ1 Cet
- HIP number
- 10324
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-10-15
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bawy, bȝwy, the dual form of Ba (the Soul), i.e. Two Souls, is an Egyptian name, used in decanal star clocks (~2300 BCE).
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 383 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1643 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 8.8° — 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.