B-type star · blue-white star

Alpha Scl

Alpha Scl is a blue-white star in the constellation Sculptor 777 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,569 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 941× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 777 years ago.

777 lybrightness mag 4.30B7IIIp

Also catalogued as HR 280 · HD 5737 · HIP 4577

12,569 K
temperature
4.30
apparent magnitude
941× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
777 years
at light speed from Earth
2.18×
as hot as the Sun
941×
the Sun's light output
-2.58
absolute magnitude
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Alpha SclB-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 23286 ly
StarHD 9731140 ly
StarKappa² Scl140 ly
StarBeta Sclstar
StarGamma Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.