F-type star · yellow-white star

Alchiba

Alchiba is a yellow-white star in the constellation Corvus 48.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,252 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 49 years ago.

48.7 lybrightness mag 4.02F0IV/V

Also catalogued as Alpha Crv · HR 4623 · HD 105452 · HIP 59199 · Gliese Gl 455.3

7,252 K

temperature

4.02

apparent magnitude

4.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

49 years

at light speed from Earth

1.26×

as hot as the Sun

4.79×

the Sun's light output

3.15

absolute magnitude

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AlchibaF-type

Sky regionCorvusthis direction

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Bright stars in Corvus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corvus

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.