Alsciaukat

Its story

Alsciaukat lives in Lynx, a constellation so faint that the astronomer Hevelius named it that way claiming it could only be seen «with lynx eyes». An orange giant variable 382 light-years away, its name comes from the Arabic «al-shawkah», the thorn. It belongs to that lineage of pulsating stars whose brightness changes with astronomical patience, without sudden shocks, as they spend their nuclear fuel.