Arabic star names / Sadalsuud
Sadalsuud
سعد السعود
Sadalsuud comes from the Arabic سعد السعود (Saʿd al-Suʿūd), which means “the luckiest of the lucky”. It is the 159th-brightest star in the sky, in Aquarius.
- Brightness
- 2.90
- Colour
- orange
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Best seen
- September evenings
- Right ascension
- 21h 32m
- Declination
- −5° 34′
The name
Its dawn rising came as winter softened, a lucky sign in the Arab calendar of the stars.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere south of 84°N. From Riyadh it climbs to 60° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 33° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 62° above the horizon.
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