Libertas
HR 7595 · HIP 97938 · ξ Aql
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.707 mag
- Parallax
- 17.77 mas → about 183.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III
- Surface temperature
- 4,841 K
- Right ascension
- 298.562°
- Declination
- 8.4615°
- Designation
- HR 7595
- Bayer designation
- ξ Aql
- HIP number
- 97938
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Libertas is Latin for "liberty". Liberty refers to social and political freedoms, and a reminder that there are people derived of liberty in the world even today. The constellation Aquila represents an eagle - a popular symbol of liberty.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 184 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1842 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 8.5° — 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.