Scheat
HR 8775 · HIP 113881 · β Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.42 mag
- Parallax
- 16.64 mas → about 196 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M2II-IIIvar
- Right ascension
- 345.9436°
- Declination
- 28.0828°
- Designation
- HR 8775
- Bayer designation
- β Peg
- HIP number
- 113881
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Arabic word al-saq, "the shin," used in the Arabic Almagest in describing δ Aqr. Wrongly transferred as a star name to β Peg in late medieval times.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 196 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1830 (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 28.1° — 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.