Alula Australis
* ksi UMa · HIP 55203 · ξ UMa
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.79 mag
- Spectral type
- G0V
- Right ascension
- 169.5455°
- Declination
- 31.5293°
- Designation
- * ksi UMa
- Bayer designation
- ξ UMa
- HIP number
- 55203
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from their pre-Islamic Arabian name al-qafza al-ula, "the First Leap", and the Latin distinctions of "northern" and "southern," respectively.
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
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 31.5° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
- Its IAU name «Alula Australis» comes from Arabic (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.