Paradys
HR 5470 · HIP 72370 · α Aps
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.798 mag
- Parallax
- 7.3 mas → about 446.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5III
- Right ascension
- 221.9655°
- Declination
- -79.0448°
- Designation
- HR 5470
- Bayer designation
- α Aps
- HIP number
- 72370
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-05-18
- Name language
- Dutch
- Name origin (IAU)
- In Dutch around 1600, two spelling versions of the Apus-bird existed. WGSN decided to take the first part of the earliest written witness, Paradys-vogel (Plancius 1598), to name the main star of the constellation.
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 447 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1579 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -79° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.