B-type star · blue-white star

1Sig Ara

378 lybrightness mag 4.56A0V

Also catalogued as HR 6537 · HD 159217 · HIP 86092

10,382 K

temperature

4.56

apparent magnitude

176× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

378 years

at light speed from Earth

1.80×

as hot as the Sun

176×

the Sun's light output

-0.76

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

1Sig AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6420 →29 ly apart
HD 158907 →31 ly apart
HR 6483 →43 ly apart
HR 6300 →50 ly apart
HR 6547 →51 ly apart
HR 6503 →54 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.