Darlugal
HR 1998 · HIP 27288 · ζ Lep
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.525 mag
- Parallax
- 46.28 mas → about 70.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- A2Vann
- Right ascension
- 86.7389°
- Declination
- -14.822°
- Designation
- HR 1998
- Bayer designation
- ζ Lep
- HIP number
- 27288
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-03-22
- Name language
- Sumerian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Derived from Sumerian DAR.LUGAL, The Rooster, an animal first domesticated in China and India, and archaeologically attested in West Asia only since the 2nd millennium BCE for cockfights.
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 70 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1956 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -14.8° — 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.