Arabic star names / Saiph
Saiph
سيف الجبار
Saiph comes from the Arabic سيف الجبار (Sayf al-Jabbār), which means “the giant's sword”. It is the 57th-brightest star in the sky, in Orion.
- Brightness
- 2.07
- Colour
- blue-white
- Constellation
- Orion
- Best seen
- January evenings
- Right ascension
- 5h 48m
- Declination
- −9° 40′
The name
The name once belonged to the stars of Orion's sword. Over centuries it slid to this star at the giant's right knee.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere south of 80°N. From Riyadh it climbs to 56° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 29° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 66° above the horizon.
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