Alqubba
HR 7259 · HIP 94160 · β CrA
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.095 mag
- Parallax
- 6.88 mas → about 474.1 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0II/IIICN.
- Right ascension
- 287.5073°
- Declination
- -39.3408°
- Designation
- HR 7259
- Bayer designation
- β CrA
- HIP number
- 94160
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-08-13
- Name language
- Arabic
- Name origin (IAU)
- al-Qubba (القُبَّة), “the dome or domed tent”, is an Arab asterism that correspond to the stars of Corona Australis.
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 474 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1552 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination -39.3° — 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.