Algenib
HR 39 · HIP 1067 · γ Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.84 mag
- Parallax
- 8.33 mas → about 391.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2IV
- Right ascension
- 3.309°
- Declination
- 15.1836°
- Designation
- HR 39
- Bayer designation
- γ Peg
- HIP number
- 1067
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the name for the Arabic Almagest period al-janb, "the Side," for α Per. Wrongly transferred to γ Peg in Early Modern times.
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 392 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1634 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.2° — 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.