Arabic star names / Alnitak
Alnitak
النطاق
Alnitak comes from the Arabic النطاق (al-Niṭāq), which means “the girdle”. It is the 32nd-brightest star in the sky, in Orion.
- Brightness
- 1.74
- Colour
- blue-white
- Constellation
- Orion
- Best seen
- January evenings
- Right ascension
- 5h 41m
- Declination
- −1° 57′
The name
The eastern star of Orion's Belt.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere south of 88°N. From Riyadh it climbs to 63° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 37° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 58° above the horizon.
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