A-type star · white star
Ascella
Ascella is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 88.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 88 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta Sgr · HR 7194 · HD 176687 · HIP 93506
9,412 K
temperature
2.60
apparent magnitude
58.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
88 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
58.08×
the Sun's light output
0.44
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.