Tarandus
HR 285 · HIP 5372 · 2 UMi
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.225 mag
- Parallax
- 11.64 mas → about 280.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K2II-III
- Right ascension
- 17.187°
- Declination
- 86.2571°
- Designation
- HR 285
- Bayer designation
- 2 UMi
- HIP number
- 5372
- IAU name adopted
- 2025-12-25
- Name language
- Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- Tarandus is an alternative name for the Early Modern European constellation "Rangifer", the Reindeer, from Greek τάρανδος (reindeer), Latinised by Carl Linnaeus 1758 "Cervus Tarandus" for a species, Jamieson 1822 used "Rangifer tarandus" for the reindeer in the sky.
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 280 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1746 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 86.3° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.