Giausar
HR 4434 · HIP 56211 · λ Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.85 mag
- Parallax
- 9.79 mas → about 333.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M0IIIvar
- Right ascension
- 172.8509°
- Declination
- 69.3311°
- Designation
- HR 4434
- Bayer designation
- λ Dra
- HIP number
- 56211
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Persian
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Persian word jauzahr, a technical term designating the nodes of the moon's or any planet's orbit. Erroneously applied as a star name to λ Dra in recent times.
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 333 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1693 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 69.3° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.