Tureis
HR 3185 · HIP 39757 · ρ Pup
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 2.81 mag
- Parallax
- 51.33 mas → about 63.5 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F2mF5IIp
- Right ascension
- 121.886°
- Declination
- -24.3043°
- Designation
- HR 3185
- Bayer designation
- ρ Pup
- HIP number
- 39757
- IAU name adopted
- 2016-09-12
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- From the Arabic word al-turais, "the Little Shield," used in the Arabic Almagest in describing several stars (ρ Pup not among them) in the constellation Argo. Wrongly applied as a star name to ρ Pup 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 64 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1962 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -24.3° — 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.