G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Cervantes

50.6 lybrightness mag 5.12G5V

Also catalogued as Mu Ara · HR 6585 · HD 160691 · HIP 86796 · Gliese Gl 691

5,622 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

1.88× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

51 years

at light speed from Earth

0.97×

as hot as the Sun

1.88×

the Sun's light output

4.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

CervantesG-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

Iot Pav →12 ly apart
HR 6748 →17 ly apart
Bet TrA →18 ly apart
Zet TrA →19 ly apart
Lam Ara →20 ly apart
Nu 2Lup →20 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.