A-type star · white star

Ascella

88.2 lybrightness mag 2.60A3IV

Also catalogued as 38Zet 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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AscellaA-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

StarGumala10 ly

StarEps CrA16 ly

StarKaus Borealis16 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

Gumala →10 ly apart
Eps CrA →16 ly apart
Kaus Borealis →16 ly apart
Terebellum →19 ly apart
HR 6836 →20 ly apart
Alnasl →22 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Kaus Media →mag 2.7
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1
27Phi Sgr →mag 3.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.