Nashira
HR 8278 · HIP 106985 · γ Cap
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.67 mag
- Parallax
- 20.77 mas → about 157 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A7III:mp...
- Right ascension
- 325.0227°
- Declination
- -16.6624°
- Designation
- HR 8278
- Bayer designation
- γ Cap
- HIP number
- 106985
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the pre-Islamic Arabian name sa<d nashira, for γ and δ Cap. Its meaning is unknown. As originally applied, γ was "Nashira Prima" and δ was "Nashira Posterior."
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 157 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1869 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -16.7° — 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.