- Stars with a name
- Dalim
Dalim
α Fornacis
Dalim is a yellow-white star, in the constellation Fornax. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1980.
Where to find it
Visible to the naked eye away from the brightest lights. Apparent magnitude 3.80.
What it’s like
It gives off 5.3 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 5,900 degrees Celsius.
It is 46.4 light years away: 439 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1980: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.