Nihal
HR 1829 · HIP 25606 · β Lep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.84 mag
- Parallax
- 20.34 mas → about 160.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G5II
- Right ascension
- 82.0613°
- Declination
- -20.7594°
- Designation
- HR 1829
- Bayer designation
- β Lep
- HIP number
- 25606
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the pre-Islamic Arabian asterism name al-nihal "the Camels Beginning to Quench Their Thirst" for α, β, γ and δ Lep.
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 160 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1866 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -20.8° — 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.