B-type star · blue-white star

Zeta Ari

Zeta Ari is a blue-white star in the constellation Aries 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 4.87A1V

Also catalogued as HR 972 · HD 20150 · HIP 15110

10,213 K
temperature
4.87
apparent magnitude
63.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
63.45×
the Sun's light output
0.34
absolute magnitude
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Zeta AriB-type
Sky regionAriesthis direction
StarHR 113732 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.