A-type star · white star

Lambda Ari

Lambda Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,526 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.

129 lybrightness mag 4.79F0V

Also catalogued as HR 569 · HD 11973 · HIP 9153

7,526 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
16.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
16.49×
the Sun's light output
1.81
absolute magnitude
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Lambda AriA-type
Sky regionAriesthis direction
Star20 Ari14 ly
StarHR 62416 ly
Star30 Ari21 ly
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Bright stars in Aries
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.