A-type star · white star

Beta Oct

Beta Oct is a white star in the constellation Octans 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,102 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.

149 lybrightness mag 4.13A9IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 8630 · HD 214846 · HIP 112405

8,102 K

temperature

4.13

apparent magnitude

40.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A9IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

149 years

at light speed from Earth

1.40×

as hot as the Sun

40.66×

the Sun's light output

0.83

absolute magnitude

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Beta OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

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Bright stars in Octans

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.