Ankaa
HR 99 · HIP 2081 · α Phe
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.38 mag
- Parallax
- 38.5 mas → about 84.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0III...
- Right ascension
- 6.571°
- Declination
- -42.306°
- Designation
- HR 99
- Bayer designation
- α Phe
- HIP number
- 2081
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from the modern Arabic constellation name al-'anqa' (a fabulous bird) for Phoenix.
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 85 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1941 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -42.3° — 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.