Kui
HR 271 · HIP 4463 · η And
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.42 mag
- Parallax
- 14.2 mas → about 229.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III-IV
- Right ascension
- 14.3017°
- Declination
- 23.4177°
- Designation
- HR 271
- Bayer designation
- η And
- HIP number
- 4463
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-04-06
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Kui奎, The Legs, is an ancient Chinese constellation with 16 stars, belonging to the 28 Lunar Mansions in China, with a very long history. Its determinative star used to be zeta And for many centuries but it was changed to eta And in Qing Dynasty.
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 230 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1796 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 23.4° — 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.