Rigel
HR 1713 · HIP 24436 · β Ori
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 0.13 mag
- Parallax
- 3.78 mas → about 862.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8Ia
- Right ascension
- 78.6345°
- Declination
- -8.2016°
- Designation
- HR 1713
- Bayer designation
- β Ori
- HIP number
- 24436
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From an abbrevation of its pre-Islamic Arabian (and Arabic) name rijl al-jauza', the Foot of al-jauza'." "Rigel" is one of the oldest Arabic star names applied in the West, from the end of the 10th century A.D.
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 863 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1163 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 0.1 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.