Aerostaticus
HR 8135 · HIP 105140 · ε Mic
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.708 mag
- Parallax
- 17.9 mas → about 182.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0V
- Right ascension
- 319.4845°
- Declination
- -32.1725°
- Designation
- HR 8135
- Bayer designation
- ε Mic
- HIP number
- 105140
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-16
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Globus Aerostaticus is one of the obsolete constellations, introduced in early modern time to celebrate new technologies.
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 182 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1844 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -32.2° — 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.