B-type star · blue-white star

Alfarasalkamil

687 lybrightness mag 3.62B6pv SB

Also catalogued as 1Omi And · HR 8762 · HD 217675 · HIP 113726

11,556 K

temperature

3.62

apparent magnitude

1,377× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6pv SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

687 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

1,377×

the Sun's light output

-3.00

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AlfarasalkamilB-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8654 →53 ly apart
HR 8588 →73 ly apart
HR 8927 →79 ly apart
HD 218365 →90 ly apart
HR 8723 →94 ly apart
HD 215473 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Andromeda

Alpheratz →mag 2.1
Mirach →mag 2.1
Almach →mag 2.1
31Del And →mag 3.3
Nembus →mag 3.6
Udkadua →mag 3.8
37Mu And →mag 3.9
Shimu →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.