K-type star · orange

Epsilon¹ Ara

Epsilon¹ Ara is an orange in the constellation Ara 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,867 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 253× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 361 years ago.

361 lybrightness mag 4.06K4III

Also catalogued as HR 6295 · HD 152980 · HIP 83153

3,867 K
temperature
4.06
apparent magnitude
253× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
361 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
253×
the Sun's light output
-1.16
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon¹ AraK-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 627519 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To 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.