Tiangang
HR 8576 · HIP 111188 · β PsA
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.29 mag
- Parallax
- 22.84 mas → about 142.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1V
- Right ascension
- 337.8764°
- Declination
- -32.3461°
- Designation
- HR 8576
- Bayer designation
- β PsA
- HIP number
- 111188
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tiān Gāng (天綱, Celestial Rope) is a traditional Chinese constellation that represents large ropes used to pitch tents — and symbolically represents the Celestial Military Tent of the emperor on campaign.
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 143 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1883 (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 -32.3° — 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.