Xami
HR 5463 · HIP 71908 · α Cir
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.19 mag
- Parallax
- 60.35 mas → about 54 light-years away
- Spectral type
- F1Vp
- Right ascension
- 220.6268°
- Declination
- -64.9751°
- Designation
- HR 5463
- Bayer designation
- α Cir
- HIP number
- 71908
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-12-12
- Name language
- \Xam-dialect of Khoe
- Name origin (IAU)
- The South African asterism "Eyes of the Lion" refers to alpha and beta Centauri. Assuming these bright stars are the eyes, the face of this creature "Xami" covers alf Cir, and the constellation Circinus does not have any mythology or alternative name. Therefore, WGSN decided for an Indigenous name for this main star of a constellation.
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 54 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1972 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -65° — it never rises in Seoul (37.6° N); you need to be farther south to see it.
Worked out from this object's official values.