Nekkar
HR 5602 · HIP 73555 · β Boo
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.52 mag
- Parallax
- 14.48 mas → about 225.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 225.4865°
- Declination
- 40.3906°
- Designation
- HR 5602
- Bayer designation
- β Boo
- HIP number
- 73555
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- corrupted
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from a misreading of the Arabic constellation name al-baqqar, "the Ox-driver", for Boötes.
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 225 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1801 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 40.4° — 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.