Tianbang
HR 6588 · HIP 86414 · ι Her
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.8 mag
- Parallax
- 7.17 mas → about 454.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B3V SB
- Right ascension
- 264.8662°
- Declination
- 46.0063°
- Designation
- HR 6588
- Bayer designation
- ι Her
- HIP number
- 86414
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-20
- Name language
- Chinese
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tiān Bàng (Celestial Flail, 天棓) is a defensive weapon, attested as constellation since 100 BCE. WGSN represents it by its determinative star.
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 455 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1571 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 46° — 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.