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HR 2088 · HIP 28360 · β Aur
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.9 mag
- Parallax
- 40.21 mas → about 81.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Right ascension
- 89.8822°
- Declination
- 44.9474°
- Designation
- HR 2088
- Bayer designation
- β Aur
- HIP number
- 28360
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from its Arabic name mankib dhi l-(inan, "the Shoulder of the Reinholder".
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 81 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1945 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 44.9° — 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.