B-type star · blue-white star

Iot Ara

935 lybrightness mag 5.21B2IIIne

Also catalogued as HR 6451 · HD 157042 · HIP 85079

11,523 K

temperature

5.21

apparent magnitude

589× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IIIne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

935 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

589×

the Sun's light output

-2.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Iot AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6558 →100 ly apart
HR 6530 →100 ly apart
HR 6640 →120 ly apart
HR 6759 →130 ly apart
HR 6622 →140 ly apart
HR 6487 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.