Baijiu
HR 8305 · HIP 107380 · ι PsA
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.34 mag
- Parallax
- 15.97 mas → about 204.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9.5V
- Right ascension
- 326.2367°
- Declination
- -33.0258°
- Designation
- HR 8305
- Bayer designation
- ι PsA
- HIP number
- 107380
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bài Jiù (Broken Mortar, 敗臼) is a Chinese asterism of four stars that represents damaged implement for processing staple food.
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 204 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1822 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -33° — 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.