Sheliak
HR 7106 · HIP 92420 · β Lyr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.42 mag
- Parallax
- 3.39 mas → about 962.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A8:V comp SB
- Right ascension
- 282.52°
- Declination
- 33.3627°
- Designation
- HR 7106
- Bayer designation
- β Lyr
- HIP number
- 92420
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic constellation name al-salbaq, "the Harp," for Lyra. salbaq was a Greek loanword in Arabia, and was one of three names of musical instruments used by the Arabics for Lyra. Still other names were alsulalfat, and al-lura.
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 962 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1064 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 33.4° — 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.