B-type star · blue-white star
Alpha Dor
Alpha Dor is a blue-white star in the constellation Dorado 169 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 169 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1465 · HD 29305 · HIP 21281
11,231 K
temperature
3.30
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
169 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.27
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.