B-type star · blue-white star

Ome Oct

317 lybrightness mag 5.88B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 5557 · HD 131596 · HIP 74296

10,529 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

36.58× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

317 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

36.58×

the Sun's light output

0.94

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Ome OctB-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Del Oct →20 ly apart
Iot Oct →39 ly apart
HR 5757 →39 ly apart
Eta Oct →42 ly apart
Ups Oct →43 ly apart
Kap Oct →45 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.