Fang
HR 5944 · HIP 78265 · π Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.91 mag
- Parallax
- 5.57 mas → about 585.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B1V + B2V
- Right ascension
- 239.713°
- Declination
- -26.1141°
- Designation
- HR 5944
- Bayer designation
- π Sco
- HIP number
- 78265
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- determinitive star of lunar mansion Fang (The Room) whose naming constellation constists of 4 stars according to sources back to the 3rd millennium 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 586 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1440 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -26.1° — 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.