Pili
HR 9072 · HIP 118268 · ω Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.02 mag
- Parallax
- 31.26 mas → about 104.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F4IV
- Right ascension
- 359.8279°
- Declination
- 6.8633°
- Designation
- HR 9072
- Bayer designation
- ω Psc
- HIP number
- 118268
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Pī Lì (Thunderbolt, 霹靂) is a five-star Chinese constellation, which forms a super-constellation with Yunyu (clouds & rain) and Leidian (thunder and lightning).
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 104 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1922 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 6.9° — 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.