Puwuh Atarung
HR 8969 · HIP 116771 · ι Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.12 mag
- Parallax
- 72.92 mas → about 44.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F7V
- Right ascension
- 354.9877°
- Declination
- 5.6263°
- Designation
- HR 8969
- Bayer designation
- ι Psc
- HIP number
- 116771
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Balinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Puwuh Atarung (ᬧᬸᬯᬸᬄᬳᬢᬭᬸᬂ) means "battling quails", birds that are crucial poultry source of nutritious animal protein (meat and eggs). Their constellation has been used on Bali since 700 CE.
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 45 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1981 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 5.6° — 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.