B-type star · blue-white star

56 Ari

503 lybrightness mag 5.78B9p Si

Also catalogued as HR 954 · HD 19832 · HIP 14893

11,675 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

101× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9p Si

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

503 years

at light speed from Earth

2.02×

as hot as the Sun

101×

the Sun's light output

-0.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

56 AriB-type

Sky regionAriesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 971 →35 ly apart
HR 945 →36 ly apart
HR 946 →40 ly apart
52 Ari →43 ly apart
HR 999 →46 ly apart
61Tau1Ari →57 ly apart

Bright stars in Aries

Hamal →mag 2.0
Sheratan →mag 2.6
Bharani →mag 3.6
Mesarthim →mag 3.9
Botein →mag 4.3
Lilii Borea →mag 4.5
48Eps Ari →mag 4.6
35 Ari →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.