A-type star · white star

Rho Oct

216 lybrightness mag 5.57A2V

Also catalogued as HR 5729 · HD 137333 · HIP 76996

8,857 K

temperature

5.57

apparent magnitude

22.53× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

216 years

at light speed from Earth

1.53×

as hot as the Sun

22.53×

the Sun's light output

1.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Rho OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6552 →13 ly apart
HR 5491 →14 ly apart
HR 4385 →38 ly apart
Iot1Mus →42 ly apart
HR 7698 →42 ly apart
HR 8234 →44 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 5.6To 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.