Homam
HR 8634 · HIP 112029 · ζ Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.41 mag
- Parallax
- 15.96 mas → about 204.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8.5V
- Right ascension
- 340.3655°
- Declination
- 10.8314°
- Designation
- HR 8634
- Bayer designation
- ζ Peg
- HIP number
- 112029
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of the pre-Islamic Arabian name sa'd al-humam, for ζ and ξ Peg. A possible meaning for the name is "the Lucky (Stars) of the Hero," but the exact historical connections are unknown.
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 204 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1822 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 10.8° — 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.