B-type star · blue-white star
Beta Scl
Beta Scl is a blue-white star in the constellation Sculptor 174 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,489 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 174 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8937 · HD 221507 · HIP 116231
11,489 K
temperature
4.38
apparent magnitude
43.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5IVMNpe.
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
174 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
43.89×
the Sun's light output
0.74
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.