B-type star · blue-white star

The Ara

813 lybrightness mag 3.65B2Ib

Also catalogued as HR 6743 · HD 165024 · HIP 88714

11,590 K

temperature

3.65

apparent magnitude

1,878× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

813 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

1,878×

the Sun's light output

-3.33

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6572 →75 ly apart
HR 6640 →80 ly apart
HR 6759 →97 ly apart
HR 6819 →100 ly apart
HR 7097 →120 ly apart
Del1Tel →130 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.