A-type star · white star

26 Ari

26 Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,816 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 215 years ago.

215 lybrightness mag 6.14A9V

Also catalogued as HR 729 · HD 15550 · HIP 11678

7,816 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

13.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

215 years

at light speed from Earth

1.35×

as hot as the Sun

13.29×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

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26 AriA-type

Sky regionAriesthis direction

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Bright stars in Aries

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To 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.