Alsafi
HR 7462 · HIP 96100 · σ Dra
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.68 mag
- Parallax
- 173.77 mas → about 18.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0V
- Right ascension
- 293.09°
- Declination
- 69.6612°
- Designation
- HR 7462
- Bayer designation
- σ Dra
- HIP number
- 96100
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Alsafi is corrupted from Athāfi, erroneously transcribed from the Arabic plural Athāfiyy, by which the nomads designated the tripods of their open-air kitchens; one of these being imagined in σ, τ and υ [Dra].
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 19 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2007 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 69.7° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.