Alsephina
HR 3485 · HIP 42913 · δ Vel
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.93 mag
- Parallax
- 40.49 mas → about 80.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1V
- Right ascension
- 131.1758°
- Declination
- -54.7086°
- Bayer designation
- δ Vel
- HIP number
- 42913
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The term is Arabic for "The Ship". It originates from the translation of Greek knowledge to Arabic when Argo Navis (The Ship Argo) was translated to Arabic and, thus, originally referred to the whole constellation rather than any specific star.
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 81 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1945 (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 -54.7° — 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.