Zubeneschamali
HR 5685 · HIP 74785 · β Lib
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.62 mag
- Parallax
- 17.62 mas → about 185.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8V
- Right ascension
- 229.2517°
- Declination
- -9.3829°
- Designation
- HR 5685
- Bayer designation
- β Lib
- HIP number
- 74785
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in Early Modern times from its name for the Arabic Almagest period al-zubana alshamali, "the Northern Claw (of the Scorpion)".
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 185 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1841 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -9.4° — 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.