Phact
HR 1956 · HIP 26634 · α Col
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.65 mag
- Parallax
- 12.48 mas → about 261.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B7IV
- Right ascension
- 84.9123°
- Declination
- -34.0741°
- Designation
- HR 1956
- Bayer designation
- α Col
- HIP number
- 26634
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the Arabic word fakhita, "ring dove," used in connection with the constellation Cygnus in a Early Modern discussion of Arabic bird names.
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 261 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1765 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -34.1° — 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.