Star
Hamal
Hamal is an orange star 65.8 light-years away, seen as it was 66 years ago, shining 56 times as bright as the Sun.
The brightest star in Aries. The Sun stood in Aries at the spring equinox from 2000 to 100 BCE, which is why most astrology columns begin with Aries.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 65.8 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 2.01
- Spectral type
- K2III
- Catalogue
- HIP 9884
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.