K-type star · orange

Alpha Ind

Alpha Ind is an orange in the constellation Indus 98.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,748 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 98 years ago.

98.3 lybrightness mag 3.11K0III

Also catalogued as HR 7869 · HD 196171 · HIP 101772 · Gliese Gl 794.1

4,748 K

temperature

3.11

apparent magnitude

45.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

98 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

45.12×

the Sun's light output

0.71

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Indus

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.