Arcalís
HD 131496 · HIP 72845
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 7.8 mag
- Parallax
- 9.09 mas → about 358.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 4,846 K
- Right ascension
- 223.346°
- Declination
- 18.2354°
- Designation
- HD 131496
- HIP number
- 72845
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Catalan
- Name origin (IAU)
- Arcalis is a famous peak in the north of Andorra, where the Sun passes through a hole in the mountain twice a year at fixed dates. It was used as a primitive solar calendar and reference point for shepherds and early inhabitants of Andorra.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 359 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1667 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 7.8 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 18.2° — 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.