A-type star · white star
Xi¹ Sgr
Xi¹ Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 2,064 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,685 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,426× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,064 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7145 · HD 175687 · HIP 93057
8,685 K
temperature
5.02
apparent magnitude
3,426× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,064 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
3,426×
the Sun's light output
-3.99
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.