Huagai
HR 707 · HIP 11569 · ι Cas
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.61 mag
- Parallax
- 24.55 mas → about 132.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A5p Sr
- Right ascension
- 37.2663°
- Declination
- 67.4024°
- Designation
- HR 707
- Bayer designation
- ι Cas
- HIP number
- 11569
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-12-25
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Huá Gài (Canopy of the Emperor, 華蓋) is a Chinese asterism consisting of sixteen stars, divided into two parts: seven stars forming the Huá Gài (“Canopy”) proper and nine forming the Gàng (“Shaft”). The asterism originated within the Gan school during the Han dynasty, around the first century BCE.
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 133 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1893 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 67.4° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.