Mintaka
HR 1852 · HIP 25930 · δ Ori
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.41 mag
- Parallax
- 4.71 mas → about 692.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- O9.5II
- Right ascension
- 83.0017°
- Declination
- -0.299095°
- Designation
- HR 1852
- Bayer designation
- δ Ori
- HIP number
- 25930
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from an abbreviation of the pre-Islamic Arabian (and Arabic) asterism name mintaqat al-jauza', "the Belt (or Girdle) of al-jauza'", for δ, ε, and ζ Ori.
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 692 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1334 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -0.3° — 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.