Alsamaka
HR 8538 · HIP 110538 · β Lac
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.44 mag
- Parallax
- 19.19 mas → about 170 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G9III
- Right ascension
- 335.8901°
- Declination
- 52.229°
- Designation
- HR 8538
- Bayer designation
- β Lac
- HIP number
- 110538
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Al-Samaka al-Ṣuġrā (Arabic: السمكة الصغرى, The Smaller Fish) is an Arabic asterism in Lacerta and Andromeda, attested since Ibn Qutayba.
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 170 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1856 (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 52.2° — 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.