K-type star · orange
Xi Scl
Xi Scl is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 514 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,338 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 125× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 514 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 288 · HD 6055 · HIP 4770
4,338 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
125× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
514 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
125×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
absolute magnitude
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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.