Sceptrum
HR 1481 · HIP 21594 · 53 Eri
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.87 mag
- Parallax
- 29.69 mas → about 109.9 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1III
- Right ascension
- 69.5451°
- Declination
- -14.304°
- Designation
- HR 1481
- Bayer designation
- 53 Eri
- HIP number
- 21594
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- from the obsolete constellation of Sceptrum Brandenburgicum
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
Related
Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 110 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1916 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -14.3° — 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.