F-type star · yellow-white star
47 Ari
47 Ari is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aries 108 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 108 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 878 · HD 18404 · HIP 13834
6,801 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
4.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
108 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
4.59×
the Sun's light output
3.20
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.