B-type star · blue-white star

Epsilon Aps

Epsilon Aps is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 645 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,709 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 322× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 645 years ago.

645 lybrightness mag 5.06B4V

Also catalogued as HR 5336 · HD 124771 · HIP 70248

11,709 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
322× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
645 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
322×
the Sun's light output
-1.42
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon ApsB-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHD 12829468 ly
StarDelta² Aps69 ly
StarHR 613985 ly
StarParadysstar
StarGamma Apsstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Apus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.