Solitaire
HR 5526 · HIP 72571 · E Hya
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.41 mag
- Parallax
- 9.85 mas → about 331.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K3III
- Right ascension
- 222.5721°
- Declination
- -27.9604°
- Designation
- HR 5526
- Bayer designation
- E Hya
- HIP number
- 72571
- IAU name adopted
- 2024-10-31
- Name language
- French
- Name origin (IAU)
- extinct constellations invented by Le Monnier (1776), Latinized "Turdus Solitarius", was originally meant to remember the extinct bird "Rodrigues Solitaire", but always depicted as a Blue Rock Thrush.
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 331 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1695 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -28° — 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.