Kurhah
HR 8417 · HIP 108917 · ξ Cep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.29 mag
- Parallax
- 33.79 mas → about 96.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- Am
- Right ascension
- 330.9426°
- Declination
- 64.628°
- Designation
- HR 8417
- Bayer designation
- ξ Cep
- HIP number
- 108917
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from one vocalization of its pre-Islamic Arabian name: al-qurha, "the White Spot on the Forehead of a Horse." However, the original Arabic script for the name can be read and vocalized in other ways with various meanings.
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 97 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1929 (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 64.6° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.