Enif
HR 8308 · HIP 107315 · ε Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.39 mag
- Parallax
- 4.73 mas → about 689.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2Ibvar
- Right ascension
- 326.0465°
- Declination
- 9.875°
- Designation
- HR 8308
- Bayer designation
- ε Peg
- HIP number
- 107315
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in medieval times, evidently from the Arabic word anf, "nose" (Ptolemy had described this star on the horse's "muzzle"). However, Arabic sources do not mention anf for ε Peg, only other terms, hence the ultimate origin of "Enif" remains uncertain.
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 690 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1336 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 9.9° — 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.