Menkib
HR 1228 · HIP 18614 · ξ Per
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.06 mag
- Parallax
- 2.62 mas → about 1,244.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- O7.5Iab:
- Right ascension
- 59.7413°
- Declination
- 35.791°
- Designation
- HR 1228
- Bayer designation
- ξ Per
- HIP number
- 18614
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of its pre-Islamic Arabian name mankib al-thurayya, "the Shoulder of the Pleiades," for its location in the pre-Islamic Arabian asterism here.
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 1,245 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 781 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 35.8° — 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.