B-type star · blue-white star

Pi Ari

Pi Ari is a blue-white star in the constellation Aries 780 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 392× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 780 years ago.

780 lybrightness mag 5.26B6V

Also catalogued as HR 836 · HD 17543 · HIP 13165

11,031 K
temperature
5.26
apparent magnitude
392× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
780 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
392×
the Sun's light output
-1.63
absolute magnitude
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Pi AriB-type
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Star54 Ari65 ly
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Bright stars in Aries
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.