Pagru
HR 7570 · HIP 97804 · η Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.8 mag
- Spectral type
- F6Ibv SB
- Right ascension
- 298.1182°
- Declination
- 1.0057°
- Designation
- HR 7570
- Bayer designation
- η Aql
- HIP number
- 97804
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Akkadian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Akkadian Pagru, "body" or "corpse," is commonly translated "The Dead Man", attested as a constellation in MUL.APIN which dates between 1350 and 1150 BCE, and has been used through the entire 1st millennium 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
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 1° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
- Its IAU name «Pagru» comes from Akkadian (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.