Hru
HR 7474 · HIP 96665 · σ Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.17 mag
- Parallax
- 4.18 mas → about 780.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B3V + B3V
- Right ascension
- 294.7985°
- Declination
- 5.3978°
- Designation
- HR 7474
- Bayer designation
- σ Aql
- HIP number
- 96665
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Sanskrit
- Name origin (IAU)
- Hru or Ru means Arrow. The term derives from Sanskrit, but is used as a constellation on the Island of Bali for at least 1300 years.
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 780 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1246 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 5.4° — 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.