B-type star · blue-white star

Delta Scl

Delta Scl is a blue-white star in the constellation Sculptor 137 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,113 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 137 years ago.

137 lybrightness mag 4.59A0V

Also catalogued as HR 9016 · HD 223352 · HIP 117452

10,113 K
temperature
4.59
apparent magnitude
22.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
137 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
22.57×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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Delta SclB-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 917 ly
StarHD 21864132 ly
StarOmega¹ Aqr35 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.