B-type star · blue-white star

Xi Oct

493 lybrightness mag 5.32B6IV

Also catalogued as HR 8663 · HD 215573 · HIP 112781

12,029 K

temperature

5.32

apparent magnitude

148× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

2.08×

as hot as the Sun

148×

the Sun's light output

-0.58

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Xi OctB-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8995 →25 ly apart
HR 8849 →30 ly apart
HR 8957 →50 ly apart
HR 7785 →58 ly apart
Tau Oct →64 ly apart
HR 1271 →83 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 5.3To 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.