Aldhanab
HR 8353 · HIP 108085 · γ Gru
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.01 mag
- Parallax
- 15.45 mas → about 211.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- B8III
- Right ascension
- 328.4822°
- Declination
- -37.3649°
- Designation
- HR 8353
- Bayer designation
- γ Gru
- HIP number
- 108085
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-09-05
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Al Dhanab from Arabic ال ذنب (adh-dhanab), The Tail, became common since its mentioning in Allen (1899). There it is attributed to a Persian astronomer but the whole constellation Grus is a constellation invented in the Early Modern Era.
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 211 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1815 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -37.4° — 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.