Sadalsuud
HR 8232 · HIP 106278 · β Aqr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.89 mag
- Parallax
- 6.07 mas → about 537.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0Ib
- Right ascension
- 322.8897°
- Declination
- -5.5712°
- Designation
- HR 8232
- Bayer designation
- β Aqr
- HIP number
- 106278
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic lunar mansion name sa(d al-su(ud, for β and ξ Aqr, and 46 Cap. A possible meaning for the name is "the Luckiest of the Lucky (Stars)", 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 537 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1489 (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 -5.6° — 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.