Fumalsamakah
HR 8773 · HIP 113889 · β Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.52 mag
- Parallax
- 7.99 mas → about 408.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6Ve
- Right ascension
- 345.9692°
- Declination
- 3.82°
- Designation
- HR 8773
- Bayer designation
- β Psc
- HIP number
- 113889
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Arabic فم السمكة fum al-samakah means "mouth of the fish". The name was considered traditional by the IAU in 2016, although it does not appear in Kunitzsch and Smart (2006) and not in Allen (1899).
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 408 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1618 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 3.8° — 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.