Zubenelhakrabi
HR 5787 · HIP 76333 · γ Lib
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.91 mag
- Parallax
- 19.99 mas → about 163.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Right ascension
- 233.8816°
- Declination
- -14.7895°
- Designation
- HR 5787
- Bayer designation
- γ Lib
- HIP number
- 76333
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Allen (1899) claims that this term was used for η Lib while “properly belonging to γ Scorpii”. He gives the name “Zubān alʿAkrab, the Scropion’s Claw,” with the spelling variants Zuban al Kravi, Zuben Acrabi, Zuben Hakrabi where the last one goes back to Bayer’s Uranometria (1603). Yet, Bayer’s γ Scorpii is now σ Lib (Brachium) and Bayer’s γ Lib was named “in media lance Boreali prima et superior”.
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 163 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1863 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -14.8° — 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.