Alawaidh
HR 6555 · HIP 85829 · ν2 Draconis
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.85 mag
- Parallax
- 32.8 mas → about 99.4 light-years away
- Spectral type
- Am
- Right ascension
- 263.0668°
- Declination
- 55.1729°
- Designation
- HR 6555
- Bayer designation
- ν2 Draconis
- HIP number
- 85829
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-05-13
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- al-ʿAwāʾidh (العَوائِذ), The Camel Mothers, derives from an Arabic asterism: four camel mothers are protecting one newborn camel calf (Alruba, HIP 86782).
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 99 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1927 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 55.2° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.