Aurwandilsta
HR 5971 · HIP 78493 · ι CrB
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.971 mag
- Parallax
- 10.46 mas → about 311.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A0p...
- Right ascension
- 240.3607°
- Declination
- 29.8511°
- Designation
- HR 5971
- Bayer designation
- ι CrB
- HIP number
- 78493
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-14
- Name language
- Norse
- Name origin (IAU)
- Aurvandils tá, Aurvandill's Toe, is a Norse constellation from Iceland, documented in Snorri's Edda from the 13th century CE.
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 312 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1714 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 29.9° — 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.