Nüchuang
HR 6418 · HIP 84380 · π Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.18 mag
- Parallax
- 8.66 mas → about 376.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3IIvar
- Right ascension
- 258.7618°
- Declination
- 36.8092°
- Designation
- HR 6418
- Bayer designation
- π Her
- HIP number
- 84380
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Nǚ Chuáng (Women’s Bed, 女床) is a small asterism consisting of only three stars that dates back to around 100 BCE and belongs to the Shi school.
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 377 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1649 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 36.8° — 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.