Khepdenreret
HR 6324 · HIP 83207 · ϵ Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.92 mag
- Parallax
- 21.04 mas → about 155 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0V
- Right ascension
- 255.0724°
- Declination
- 30.9264°
- Designation
- HR 6324
- Bayer designation
- ϵ Her
- HIP number
- 83207
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Khepdenreret, the Buttocks of the Hippopotamus (goddess) Reret, is a star name from ancient Egypt documented in the Ramesside Star Clocks from around 1200 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 155 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1871 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 30.9° — 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.