B-type star · blue-white star

11 Ari

11 Ari is a blue-white star in the constellation Aries 877 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,516 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 248× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 877 years ago.

877 lybrightness mag 6.01B9IV-Vn

Also catalogued as HR 615 · HD 12885 · HIP 9859

10,516 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
248× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV-Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
877 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
248×
the Sun's light output
-1.14
absolute magnitude
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11 AriB-type
Sky regionAriesthis direction
Star16 Ari110 ly
StarHR 609120 ly
StarHR 644130 ly
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Bright stars in Aries
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aries

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.