M-type star · red

Xi Tel

Xi Tel is a red in the constellation Telescopium 1,080 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,662 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,019× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,080 years ago.

1,080 lybrightness mag 4.93M1II

Also catalogued as HR 7673 · HD 190421 · HIP 99120

3,662 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
1,019× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,080 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
1,019×
the Sun's light output
-2.67
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Xi TelM-type
Sky regionTelescopiumthis direction
StarHR 7745140 ly
StarHR 7521160 ly
StarHR 7758170 ly
StarAlpha Telstar
StarZeta Telstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Telescopium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Telescopium

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.