Dschubba
HR 5953 · HIP 78401 · δ Sco
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.32 mag
- Parallax
- 6.64 mas → about 491.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B0.2IV
- Right ascension
- 240.0834°
- Declination
- -22.6217°
- Designation
- HR 5953
- Bayer designation
- δ Sco
- HIP number
- 78401
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-08-21
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of the name for the Arabic Almagest period jabhat al-'aqrab, "the Scorpion's Forehead," for β, δ, and π Sco.
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 491 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1535 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -22.6° — 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.