Kaffalmusalsala
HR 8976 · HIP 116805 · κ And
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.14 mag
- Parallax
- 19.37 mas → about 168.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B9IVn
- Right ascension
- 355.1021°
- Declination
- 44.3339°
- Designation
- HR 8976
- Bayer designation
- κ And
- HIP number
- 116805
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-05-08
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Arabic desciption of a Greek star name. The Arabic term (كفّ المسلسة) means "Hand of the Chained Woman"; originating from the Almagest "Hand of Andromeda", originally designating a group of three stars.
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 168 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1858 (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 44.3° — 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.