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HR 5867 · HIP 77233 · β Ser
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.67 mag
- Parallax
- 21.03 mas → about 155.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A3V
- Right ascension
- 236.5469°
- Declination
- 15.4218°
- Designation
- HR 5867
- Bayer designation
- β Ser
- HIP number
- 77233
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-12-05
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- This is a traditional Chinese star name of one of the stars in the historical Chinese constellation of Tianshi (Celestial Marketplace).
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 155 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1871 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 15.4° — 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.