Athebyne
HR 6132 · HIP 80331 · η Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.74 mag
- Parallax
- 35.42 mas → about 92.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G8III
- Right ascension
- 245.9979°
- Declination
- 61.5142°
- Designation
- HR 6132
- Bayer designation
- η Dra
- HIP number
- 80331
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- The transliteration Athebyne is one of several renderings of the Arabic asterism name الذئبين al-dhiʼbayn, "the (two) wolves" (ζ and η Draconis) aiming at the Camel's Foal (group of northern asterisms).
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 92 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1934 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 61.5° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.