Star profile
Giausar
Lambda Draco · Draco
Cool red starWhat is Giausar
Giausar is a red giant 333 light-years from the Earth, calmly coiled in the tail of Draco, one of the oldest constellations of the northern hemisphere. Its name reached Arabic from the Persian «jauzahr», an astronomical term naming the nodes where eclipses occurred: the symbolic place where the head and tail of the celestial dragon bit the Sun and the Moon during such events. A cool, ancient star — a relic of a sky in which eclipses were understood as living creatures, not as the mere three-body geometries that explain them today.
Where it is and when to see it
Giausar lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Giausar
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.82
- Distance
- 333.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 172.851° · Dec 69.331°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56211 · HD 100029
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- Chi Draco3.55
- ThubanAlpha Draco3.67
- GrumiumXi Draco3.73
- Epsilon Draco3.84
- Kappa Draco3.85