F-type star · yellow-white star

Lambda Ara

Lambda Ara is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ara 70.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 70 years ago.

70.0 lybrightness mag 4.76F3IV

Also catalogued as HR 6569 · HD 160032 · HIP 86486 · Gliese Gl 686.2

6,801 K

temperature

4.76

apparent magnitude

5.00× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

70 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

5.00×

the Sun's light output

3.10

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.