Arabic star names / Alpheratz
Alpheratz
سرة الفرس
Alpheratz comes from the Arabic سرة الفرس (Surrat al-Faras), which means “the horse's navel”. It is the 55th-brightest star in the sky, in Andromeda.
- Brightness
- 2.07
- Colour
- blue-white
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Best seen
- November evenings
- Right ascension
- 0h 08m
- Declination
- +29° 05′
The name
It once belonged to Pegasus, the winged horse, and now marks the head of Andromeda.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 61°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 86° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 68° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 27° above the horizon.
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