Arabic star names / Almach
Almach
عناق الأرض
Almach comes from the Arabic عناق الأرض (ʿAnāq al-Arḍ), which means “the caracal”. It is the 62nd-brightest star in the sky, in Andromeda.
- Brightness
- 2.10
- Colour
- orange
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Best seen
- December evenings
- Right ascension
- 2h 04m
- Declination
- +42° 20′
The name
Named after a desert cat of Arabia. A small telescope shows it as a beautiful gold-and-blue pair.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 48°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 72° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 81° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 14° above the horizon.
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