Ligong
HR 8667 · HIP 112440 · λ Peg
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.93 mag
- Parallax
- 8.93 mas → about 365.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8II-III
- Right ascension
- 341.6328°
- Declination
- 23.5657°
- Designation
- HR 8667
- Bayer designation
- λ Peg
- HIP number
- 112440
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ligong (離宮) denoted a secondary or temporary palace situated apart from the principal palace and used for the ruler’s temporary residence, repose, and private life.
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 365 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1661 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 23.6° — 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.