Alnasl
HR 6746 · HIP 88635 · γ2 Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.99 mag
- Parallax
- 33.67 mas → about 96.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Right ascension
- 271.452°
- Declination
- -30.4241°
- Designation
- HR 6746
- Bayer designation
- γ2 Sgr
- HIP number
- 88635
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from its late Arabic name al-nasl, "the Point," in turn an abbreviation of the Arabic Almagest's nasl al-sahm, "the Point of the Arrow."
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 97 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1929 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -30.4° — 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.