Tepennekhet
HR 8123 · HIP 104858 · δ Equ
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.49 mag
- Parallax
- 54.09 mas → about 60.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F5V+...
- Right ascension
- 318.6201°
- Declination
- 10.007°
- Designation
- HR 8123
- Bayer designation
- δ Equ
- HIP number
- 104858
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-07-16
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Head of the Giant, the Giant (Nekhet) being an important Egyptian constellation, is a star name from the Ramesside Star Clocks (1400 and 1200 BCE).
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 60 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1966 (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 10° — 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.