A-type star · white star

Sig For

329 lybrightness mag 5.91A2V

Also catalogued as HR 1171 · HD 23738 · HIP 17618

8,932 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

38.44× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

329 years

at light speed from Earth

1.55×

as hot as the Sun

38.44×

the Sun's light output

0.89

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Sig ForA-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1246 →29 ly apart
36Tau9Eri →35 ly apart
HR 1214 →37 ly apart
HR 1359 →48 ly apart
Chi1For →52 ly apart
Tau For →56 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.