Ping
HR 1654 · HIP 23685 · ε Lep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.18 mag
- Parallax
- 15.29 mas → about 213.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4III
- Right ascension
- 76.3653°
- Declination
- -22.371°
- Designation
- HR 1654
- Bayer designation
- ε Lep
- HIP number
- 23685
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-03-22
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Píng (屏), the Screen in front of a toilet, is a Chinese constellation
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 213 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1813 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -22.4° — 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.