Stellio
HR 8585 · HIP 111169 · α Lac
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.77 mag
- Parallax
- 31.79 mas → about 102.6 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A1V
- Right ascension
- 337.8229°
- Declination
- 50.2825°
- Designation
- HR 8585
- Bayer designation
- α Lac
- HIP number
- 111169
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-08-29
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Hevelius, who invented the constellation Lacerta sive Stellio (modern Lacerta), gave it the alternative name Stellio in his star catalogue and atlas.
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 103 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1923 (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 50.3° — 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.