A-type star · white star
Polis
Polis is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius. Its surface is about 8,202 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 253,512,863× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 3.84B2III:
Also catalogued as Mu Sgr · HR 6812 · HD 166937 · HIP 89341
8,202 K
temperature
3.84
apparent magnitude
253,512,863× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
253,512,863×
the Sun's light output
-16.16
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.