Star profile
Alchiba
Alpha Corvi · Corvus
Nearby starWhat is Alchiba
Alchiba means «the tent» or «the encampment» in Arabic, a vivid trace of the night sky as the everyday map of desert peoples, where each star was a familiar reference of home. It is a yellowish-white star just 49 light-years away, a relatively close solar neighbour that quietly adorns the small constellation of Corvus, the Crow. Its light, brief in cosmic terms, still arrives with the immediate freshness of events lived through by our parents and grandparents.
Where it is and when to see it
Alchiba lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April: 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 Alchiba
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.02
- Distance
- 48.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 182.103° · Dec -24.729°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59199 · HD 105452
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Other stars in Corvus
Corvus has 18 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- GienahGamma Corvi2.58
- KrazBeta Corvi2.65
- AlgorabDelta Corvi2.94
- Epsilon Corvi3.02
- Eta Corvi4.30
- HIP 602215.14
- HIP 619105.17
- Zeta Corvi5.20