Edasich
HR 5744 · HIP 75458 · ι Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.29 mag
- Parallax
- 32.23 mas → about 101.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2III
- Surface temperature
- 4,504 K
- Right ascension
- 231.2324°
- Declination
- 58.9661°
- Designation
- HR 5744
- Bayer designation
- ι Dra
- HIP number
- 75458
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from its pre-Islamic Arabian name al-dhikh, "the Male Hyena."
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 101 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1925 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 59° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.