Sadalmelik
HR 8414 · HIP 109074 · α Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.94 mag
- Parallax
- 6.23 mas → about 523.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G2Ib
- Right ascension
- 331.446°
- Declination
- -0.319851°
- Designation
- HR 8414
- Bayer designation
- α Aqr
- HIP number
- 109074
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic name sa(d al-malik, for α and ο Aqr. A possible meaning for the name is "the Lucky (Stars) of the King", but the exact historical connections are unknown.
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 524 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1502 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -0.3° — 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.