Alfarasalkamil
HR 8762 · HIP 113726 · ο And
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.62 mag
- Parallax
- 4.75 mas → about 686.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6pv SB
- Right ascension
- 345.4803°
- Declination
- 42.326°
- Designation
- HR 8762
- Bayer designation
- ο And
- HIP number
- 113726
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-05-08
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Alfarasalkamil (الفرس الكامل) means "The Complete Horse", as opposed to the Greek constellation of a half horse that is now called Pegasus. The Arabian tradition may perhaps root in or connect to the Babylonian one.
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 687 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1339 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 42.3° — 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.