Jabbah
HR 6027 · HIP 79374 · ν Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.349 mag
- Parallax
- 6.88 mas → about 474.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2IV
- Right ascension
- 242.9989°
- Declination
- -19.4607°
- Designation
- HR 6027
- Bayer designation
- ν Sco
- HIP number
- 79374
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- the name was considered popular by WGSN as mentioned in Allen (1899): "in the Century Cyclopaedia, perhaps from its being one of the mansil Iklil al Jabbah."
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 474 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1552 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -19.5° — 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.