Toliman
HR 5460 · HIP 71681 · α Cen
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.33 mag
- Parallax
- 796.92 mas → about 4.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K1V
- Right ascension
- 219.8961°
- Declination
- -60.8375°
- Designation
- HR 5460
- Bayer designation
- α Cen
- HIP number
- 71681
- IAU name adopted
- 2018-08-10
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Applied in recent times from some pre-Islamic Arabian name al-zulman, "the Ostriches." Stars in today's Centaurus were variously identified with one or more ostriches by the pre-Islamic Arabians, but what star or stars were originally designated is unknown.
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 4.1 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2022 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 1.3 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -60.8° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.