B-type star · blue-white star
Delta Ara
Delta Ara is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 198 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,641 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 198 years ago.
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
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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.