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HR 7479 · HIP 96757 · α Sge
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.38 mag
- Parallax
- 7.67 mas → about 425.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G0II
- Right ascension
- 295.0241°
- Declination
- 18.0139°
- Designation
- HR 7479
- Bayer designation
- α Sge
- HIP number
- 96757
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic constellation name al-sahm, "the Arrow," for Sagitta.
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 425 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1601 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 18° — 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.