A-type star · white star
Alpha Vol
Alpha Vol is a white star in the constellation Volans 125 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,615 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 125 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3615 · HD 78045 · HIP 44382 · Gliese Gl 333.3
8,615 K
temperature
4.00
apparent magnitude
32.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
125 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
32.09×
the Sun's light output
1.08
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.