Alwasl
HR 6960 · HIP 91014 · HIP 91014
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.276 mag
- Parallax
- 2.47 mas → about 1,320.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B2III/IV
- Right ascension
- 278.4907°
- Declination
- -33.0166°
- Designation
- HR 6960
- Bayer designation
- HIP 91014
- HIP number
- 91014
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- al-Waṣl (الوَصْل), “the Joint" or "Connection” is an Arabic name for the sky region between "al-Naʿām al-Wārid”, the incoming ostriches and "al-Naʿām alṢādir”, the outgoing ostriches.
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 1,320 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 706 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -33° — 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.