K-type star · orange

Rho² Ari

Rho² Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,867 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 351 years ago.

351 lybrightness mag 5.76M6IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 867 · HD 18191 · HIP 13654

3,867 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
50.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M6IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
50.21×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.