Alkaphrah
HR 3594 · HIP 44471 · κ UMa
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.55 mag
- Parallax
- 9.1 mas → about 358.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1Vn
- Right ascension
- 135.9064°
- Declination
- 47.1565°
- Designation
- HR 3594
- Bayer designation
- κ UMa
- HIP number
- 44471
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- corrupted spelling of Arabic القفزة al-qafzah "the leap" of the Indigenous Arabic group of gazelle asterisms preserved in Ibn Qutaybah.
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 358 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1668 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 47.2° — 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.