Paikauhale
HR 6165 · HIP 81266 · τ Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.81 mag
- Parallax
- 6.88 mas → about 474.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B0V
- Right ascension
- 248.9706°
- Declination
- -28.216°
- Designation
- HR 6165
- Bayer designation
- τ Sco
- HIP number
- 81266
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-08-10
- Name language
- Hawaii'ian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Au-haele, Hōkū-‘ula and Paikauhale are documented as three stars in a line, running from north to south. Two of the most reliable sources—Mary Puku‘i and Rubellite Johnson—both identify Hōkū-‘ula as Antares (α Sco), which makes Au-haele Alniyat (σ Sco) and Paikauhale τ Sco.
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 2.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -28.2° — 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.