Furud

HR 2282 · HIP 30122 · ζ CMa

👁️ Naked-eye

📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.

Star

Apparent magnitude: 2.99 mag
Parallax: 9 mas → about 362.4 light-years away
Spectral type: B2.5V
Right ascension: 95.0783°
Declination: -30.0634°
Designation: HR 2282
Bayer designation: ζ CMa
HIP number: 30122
IAU name adopted: 2016-07-20
Name language: Arabic
Name origin (IAU): Ultimately from the Arabic word al-furud, "the solitary ones", used in an Arabic poet's allusion to anonymous "solitary stars" around some star hadari. The word was not intended as a name for specific stars as some later Arabic authors supposed. The attempted identity of the "al-furud" stars, like their companion hadari, was variously attributed to stars in today's Centaurus and Columba. The latter stars were included under Canis Maior in the Almagest, leading, in recent times, to the confused assignment of the erroneous "Furud".

Constellation

Light from this object takes about 362 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1664 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
At magnitude 3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
Declination -30.1° — 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.