Bagu
HR 2077 · HIP 28358 · δ Aur
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.72 mag
- Parallax
- 25.88 mas → about 126 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Right ascension
- 89.8817°
- Declination
- 54.2847°
- Designation
- HR 2077
- Bayer designation
- δ Aur
- HIP number
- 28358
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-11-13
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Bā Gǔ (Eight Kinds of Crops, 八穀) is a Chinese constellation consisting of eight stars located within the constellations Lynx, Auriga, and Camelopardalis. It refers to land management officials in charge of rice, millet, barley, wheat, soybean, bean, chestnut, and hemp. It belongs to the asterisms introduced by Gan De and originated during the Han dynasty (roughly 2000 years ago).
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 126 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1900 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 54.3° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.