Wazn
HR 2040 · HIP 27628 · β Col
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.12 mag
- Parallax
- 37.41 mas → about 87.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1.5III
- Right ascension
- 87.74°
- Declination
- -35.7683°
- Designation
- HR 2040
- Bayer designation
- β Col
- HIP number
- 27628
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-07-20
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from some pre-Islamic Arabian name al-wazn, of unknown significance.
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 87 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1939 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -35.8° — 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.