B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6572

HR 6572 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 801 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 256× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 801 years ago.

801 lybrightness mag 5.78A0V

Also catalogued as HD 160263 · HIP 86552

10,175 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
256× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
801 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
256×
the Sun's light output
-1.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 6572B-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 664052 ly
StarTheta Ara75 ly
StarHR 646084 ly
StarBeta Arastar
StarAlpha Arastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ara
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.