A-type star · white star

Bet2Tuc

168 lybrightness mag 4.53A2V

Also catalogued as HR 127 · HD 2885 · HIP 2487

8,597 K

temperature

4.53

apparent magnitude

35.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

168 years

at light speed from Earth

1.49×

as hot as the Sun

35.81×

the Sun's light output

0.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Bet2TucA-type

Sky regionTucanathis direction

Nearest stars

Eta Tuc →18 ly apart
Bet3Tuc →20 ly apart
HD 218497 →29 ly apart
Poerava →29 ly apart
HR 8994 →30 ly apart
HR 202 →31 ly apart

Bright stars in Tucana

Lang-Exster →mag 2.9
Gam Tuc →mag 4.0
Zet Tuc →mag 4.2
Kap Tuc →mag 4.3
Bet1Tuc →mag 4.4
Eps Tuc →mag 4.5
Del Tuc →mag 4.5
Nu Tuc →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.