Zaurak
HR 1231 · HIP 18543 · γ Eri
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.94 mag
- Parallax
- 16.04 mas → about 203.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- M1IIIb Ca-1
- Right ascension
- 59.5074°
- Declination
- -13.5085°
- Designation
- HR 1231
- Bayer designation
- γ Eri
- HIP number
- 18543
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Arabic word zauraq, "boat," used in an unaginat1ve, nonclassical description of several stars near Eridanus (evidently the stars of today's Phoenix). Arbitrarily applied as a star name toy Eri in recent times.
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 203 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1823 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -13.5° — 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.