
No star has been selected yet.
You haven't picked a star yet
Back to the selector
Your star
Rho
Its story
Rho Boötis is an orange giant that has left its youth behind, slowly swelling toward its final chapter. Its warm hue plays against the cooler blue of nearby Arcturus, sketching one of those colour pairs that betray the sky's chemical variety. Its light crossed space for a century and a half before reaching us —almost the very span since Bessel first measured a stellar distance.
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.57
- Distance
- 160.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 217.958° · Dec 30.371°
- Catalogue
- HIP 71053 · HD 127665
Take your star to the gift that suits you best.
Choose a tierSymbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.