Shangcheng
HR 932 · HIP 14862
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.834 mag
- Parallax
- 19.72 mas → about 165.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2Vnn
- Right ascension
- 47.9845°
- Declination
- 74.3937°
- Designation
- HR 932
- HIP number
- 14862
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-12-25
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Shàng Chéng (The Great Imperial Minister, 上丞) and Shào Chéng (The Second Imperial Minister, 少丞) are the two stars located to the left and right of the northern gate of the Zǐ Gōng (Purple Palace) / Zǐwēi Yuán (Purple Enclosure).
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 165 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1861 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 74.4° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.