Yaqana
HR 6115 · HIP 80582 · ε Nor
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.521 mag
- Parallax
- 6.15 mas → about 530.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B4V
- Right ascension
- 246.796°
- Declination
- -47.5548°
- Designation
- HR 6115
- Bayer designation
- ε Nor
- HIP number
- 80582
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-06-18
- Name language
- Quechua
- Name origin (IAU)
- Yaqana is a mother llama and forms a super-constellation with Uñallamacha, the baby llama. They rise in the sky when baby llamas are born on Earth.
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 530 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1496 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -47.6° — 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.