A-type star · white star

HD 150897

HD 150897 is a white star in the constellation Ara 418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,155 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 418 years ago.

418 lybrightness mag 6.47A1V

Also catalogued as HIP 82091

9,155 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
36.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
418 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
36.88×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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HD 150897A-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarTheta Nor49 ly
StarHR 627557 ly
StarHR 608359 ly
StarBeta Arastar
StarAlpha Arastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ara
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.