A-type star · white star

Xi Eri

Xi Eri is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 209 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,308 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 209 years ago.

209 lybrightness mag 5.17A2V

Also catalogued as HR 1383 · HD 27861 · HIP 20507

9,308 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
30.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
209 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
30.59×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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Xi EriA-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.