Okab
HR 7235 · HIP 93747 · ζ Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.99 mag
- Parallax
- 39.28 mas → about 83 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0Vn
- Right ascension
- 286.3525°
- Declination
- 13.8635°
- Designation
- HR 7235
- Bayer designation
- ζ Aql
- HIP number
- 93747
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Zeta and Epsilon Aquilae together bore the traditional name Deneb el Okab, from an Arabic term ذنب العقاب Dhanab al-ʽuqāb "the tail of the eagle".
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 83 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1943 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 13.9° — 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.