A-type star · white star

Epsilon Ari

Epsilon Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,563 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 127× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.

332 lybrightness mag 4.63A2Vs

Also catalogued as HR 887 · HD 18519 · HIP 13914

9,563 K
temperature
4.63
apparent magnitude
127× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
127×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon AriA-type
Sky regionAriesthis direction
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Bright stars in Aries
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.