A-type star · white star

Alruba

533 lybrightness mag 5.75A2V

Also catalogued as HR 6618 · HD 161693 · HIP 86782

9,918 K

temperature

5.75

apparent magnitude

117× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

533 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

117×

the Sun's light output

-0.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AlrubaA-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6753 →57 ly apart
HR 6886 →71 ly apart
HR 6827 →79 ly apart
HR 7028 →80 ly apart
HR 6448 →81 ly apart
74 Her →84 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.