B-type star · blue-white star

HD 172226

553 lybrightness mag 6.35B9/B9.5V

Also catalogued as HIP 93117

10,556 K

temperature

6.35

apparent magnitude

72.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9/B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

553 years

at light speed from Earth

1.83×

as hot as the Sun

72.18×

the Sun's light output

0.20

absolute magnitude

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HD 172226B-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6912 →22 ly apart
HR 7785 →49 ly apart
HR 6139 →84 ly apart
Tau Oct →86 ly apart
HR 6635 →94 ly apart
HR 7812 →95 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.