Ran
HR 1084 · HIP 16537 · ε Eri
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.73 mag
- Parallax
- 310.94 mas → about 10.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2V
- Surface temperature
- 5,020.38 K
- Right ascension
- 53.2327°
- Declination
- -9.4583°
- Designation
- HR 1084
- Bayer designation
- ε Eri
- HIP number
- 16537
- IAU name adopted
- 2015-12-15
- Name language
- Old Norse
- Name origin (IAU)
- Ran is the Norse goddess of the sea, who stirs up the waves and captures sailors with her net.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 10 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2016 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -9.5° — 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.