Alrakis
* mu. Dra · HIP 83608 · μ Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.91 mag
- Parallax
- 36.45 mas → about 89.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F5
- Right ascension
- 256.3341°
- Declination
- 54.4699°
- Designation
- * mu. Dra
- Bayer designation
- μ Dra
- HIP number
- 83608
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-02-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from its pre-Islamic Arabian name al-raqis, "the Trotting Camel."
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 89 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1937 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 54.5° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.