Rukbat
HR 7348 · HIP 95347 · α Sgr
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.943 mag
- Parallax
- 17.94 mas → about 181.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8V
- Right ascension
- 290.9716°
- Declination
- -40.6159°
- Designation
- HR 7348
- Bayer designation
- α Sgr
- HIP number
- 95347
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of its name for the Arabic Almagest period rukbat al-rami, "the Archer's Knee".
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 182 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1844 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -40.6° — 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.