Torcular
HR 510 · HIP 8198 · ο Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.26 mag
- Parallax
- 11.67 mas → about 279.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Right ascension
- 26.3484°
- Declination
- 9.1578°
- Designation
- HR 510
- Bayer designation
- ο Psc
- HIP number
- 8198
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- The traditional name Torcularis septentrionalis (northern wine press) was taken from the 1515 Almagest (Latin translation) and abbreviated.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 279 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1747 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 9.2° — 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.