- Stars with a name
- Athebyne
Athebyne
η Draconis
Athebyne is a yellow giant like the Sun, in the constellation Draco. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1934.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 2.73.
What it’s like
It gives off 56 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 5,000 degrees.
It is 92.1 light years away: 871 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1934: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.