Saclateni
HR 1612 · HIP 23453 · ζ Aur
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.75 mag
- Parallax
- 4.15 mas → about 785.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4II comp
- Right ascension
- 75.6195°
- Declination
- 41.0758°
- Designation
- HR 1612
- Bayer designation
- ζ Aur
- HIP number
- 23453
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Eta and Zeta Aurigae, the 8th and 9th stars of Auriga in the Almagest, were referred to as "the kids" - Eriphoi (Greek), Haedi (Latin), al-Jadayain (Arabic; al-Sufi). Hyginus (Poetica Astronomica, 2. 13) mentions the Greek astronomer Cleostratus of Tenedos (5th cen. BC) pointed out "the kids" among the stars. "Saclateni" appeared in the Alfonsine Tables ("Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis", 1492 print) and may be a corrupted Latinization of the Arabic Gadi-thani, "second kid" (Mesnard 1949, "Les noms arabes d'étoiles", Ciel et Terre, Vol. 65, p. 70)
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 786 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1240 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 41.1° — 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.