Beid
HR 1298 · HIP 19587 · ο1 Eri
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.026 mag
- Parallax
- 26.8 mas → about 121.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F2II-III
- Right ascension
- 62.9664°
- Declination
- -6.8376°
- Designation
- HR 1298
- Bayer designation
- ο1 Eri
- HIP number
- 19587
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the pre-Islamic Arabian name al-baid, "the Eggs" for unspecified dim stars around the pre-Islamic Arabian ostrich's nest.
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 122 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1904 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -6.8° — 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.