Simmakh
HR 80 · HIP 1645 · 41 Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.37 mag
- Parallax
- 8 mas → about 407.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3III
- Right ascension
- 5.1494°
- Declination
- 8.1903°
- Designation
- HR 80
- Bayer designation
- 41 Psc
- HIP number
- 1645
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Unlike most zodiac constellations, Pisces was not an ancient Mesopotamian constellation. Cuneiform literature calls this area SIM.MAḪ, The Swallow. WGSN picked a star that is inside its constellation area, despite transformations, at all times between 1400 and 100 BCE.
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 408 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1618 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 8.2° — 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.