Zuoqi
HR 7536 · HIP 97365 · δ Sge
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.81 mag
- Parallax
- 5.49 mas → about 594.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M2II + B6
- Right ascension
- 296.8469°
- Declination
- 18.5343°
- Designation
- HR 7536
- Bayer designation
- δ Sge
- HIP number
- 97365
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Zuŏ Qí (Left Flag, 左旗) is a Chinese asterism consisting of nine stars and attested for more than 2000 years. It belongs to the super-constellation of flags and drums as signal transmitter. WGSN represents it by its determinative star.
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 594 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1432 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 18.5° — 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.