F-type star · yellow-white star
30 Ari
30 Ari is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aries 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,344 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 765 · HD 16246 · HIP 12189
6,344 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
3.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
3.88×
the Sun's light output
3.38
absolute magnitude
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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.