Alsciaukat
HR 3275 · HIP 41075 · 31 Lyn
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.25 mag
- Parallax
- 8.53 mas → about 382.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5III
- Right ascension
- 125.7088°
- Declination
- 43.1881°
- Designation
- HR 3275
- Bayer designation
- 31 Lyn
- HIP number
- 41075
- IAU name adopted
- 2017-06-30
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- misspelled Arabic الشوكة aš-šawkat (al-shaukat), The Thorn. The name obviously has nothing to do with the figure of the lynx (or historically sometimes called "Tiger" or "Tigris") that was invented in Early Modern 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 382 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1644 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 43.2° — 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.