Alnaamaat
HR 585 · HIP 9347 · υ Cet
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.02 mag
- Parallax
- 11.14 mas → about 292.8 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K5/M0III
- Right ascension
- 30.0013°
- Declination
- -21.0778°
- Designation
- HR 585
- Bayer designation
- υ Cet
- HIP number
- 9347
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-10-15
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- Al-Naʿāmāt (النَّعَامَات), “the ostriches”, is an Arabic asterism. The name is independently recorded by ibn Qutayba and al-Ṣūfī.
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 293 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1733 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -21.1° — 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.