A-type star · white star
Acamar
Acamar is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,766 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 161 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta¹ Eri · HR 897 · HD 18622 · HIP 13847
8,766 K
temperature
2.88
apparent magnitude
150× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
161 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
150×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
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.