B-type star · blue-white star
Alp Scl
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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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.