Elkurud
HR 2177 · HIP 29034 · θ Col
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.994 mag
- Parallax
- 4.52 mas → about 721.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8:IV
- Right ascension
- 91.8818°
- Declination
- -37.2529°
- Designation
- HR 2177
- Bayer designation
- θ Col
- HIP number
- 29034
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-06-01
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Early Arab poets referred to a number of anonymous stars as الفرود al-furūd, "the solitary ones". Besides this known name, Allen (1899) suggested that al-furūd might have been an old transcriber's error for القرود al-qurūd "the apes", which he rendered "Al Ḳurūd". Although this idea did not receive scholarly support, WGSN used the rare transliteration Elkurud for this star, as "Furud" was already chosen for ζ CMa.
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 722 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1304 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -37.3° — 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.