F-type star · yellow-white star
Rho³ Ari
Rho³ Ari is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aries 115 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,523 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 115 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 869 · HD 18256 · HIP 13702
6,523 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
6.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
115 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
6.38×
the Sun's light output
2.84
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.