Safina
HR 8812 · HIP 114341 · 88 Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.64 mag
- Parallax
- 12.05 mas → about 270.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1III
- Right ascension
- 347.3617°
- Declination
- -21.1724°
- Designation
- HR 8812
- Bayer designation
- 88 Aqr
- HIP number
- 114341
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-12-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- an Indigenous Arabic constellation of the Ship was between Diphda and Fomalhaut (see al Qutayba); WGSN picked one of the possible stars in the area. considering the close vicinity of the Greek star name "Hydor" (The Water) north of it, it becomes a sunken treasure ship.
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 271 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1755 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -21.2° — 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.