Aldhibah
HR 6396 · HIP 83895 · ζ Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.17 mag
- Parallax
- 9.93 mas → about 328.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B6III
- Right ascension
- 257.1966°
- Declination
- 65.7146°
- Designation
- HR 6396
- Bayer designation
- ζ Dra
- HIP number
- 83895
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- ζ and η Draconis together had been considered the asterism of الذئب, al-dhiʼb, Two Hyenas or Two Wolfs that are lurking for the Camel's Foal that is protected by its mother (other stars in Draco).
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 328 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1698 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 65.7° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.