Avior
HR 3307 · HIP 41037 · ε Car
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.86 mag
- Parallax
- 5.39 mas → about 605.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3III+B2V
- Right ascension
- 125.6285°
- Declination
- -59.5095°
- Designation
- HR 3307
- Bayer designation
- ε Car
- HIP number
- 41037
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- Invented for The Air Almanac of the HM Nautical Almanac Office
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 605 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1421 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 1.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -59.5° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.