B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda¹ Scl

Lambda¹ Scl is a blue-white star in the constellation Sculptor 473 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,435 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 473 years ago.

473 lybrightness mag 6.05B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 185 · HD 4065 · HIP 3356

10,435 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

69.76× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

473 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

69.76×

the Sun's light output

0.24

absolute magnitude

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Lambda¹ SclB-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sculptor

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.