Heryibwia
HR 6832 · HIP 89642 · η Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.11 mag
- Parallax
- 22.35 mas → about 145.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M2III
- Right ascension
- 274.4068°
- Declination
- -36.7617°
- Designation
- HR 6832
- Bayer designation
- η Sgr
- HIP number
- 89642
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Egyptian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Wia, The Boat, is a large ancient Egyptian constellation in Sco & Sgr; “Heryib Wia”, The Middle of the Boat, is a star mentioned in the diagonal star clocks, c. 2300 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 146 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1880 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.1 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.