- Stars with a name
- Alchiba
Alchiba
α Corvi
Alchiba is a yellow-white star, in the constellation Corvus. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1977.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 4.02.
What it’s like
It gives off 4.8 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 7,000 degrees Celsius.
It is 48.7 light years away: 461 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1977: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.