B-type star · blue-white star

Del Ara

198 lybrightness mag 3.60B8V

Also catalogued as HR 6500 · HD 158094 · HIP 85727

11,641 K

temperature

3.60

apparent magnitude

116× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

198 years

at light speed from Earth

2.02×

as hot as the Sun

116×

the Sun's light output

-0.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Del AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6614 →31 ly apart
HR 6423 →37 ly apart
HR 6297 →37 ly apart
HR 6357 →42 ly apart
The Pav →42 ly apart
HR 6871 →43 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
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To 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.