B-type star · blue-white star

Alnair

101 lybrightness mag 1.73B7IV

Also catalogued as Alp Gru · HR 8425 · HD 209952 · HIP 109268 · Gliese Gl 848.2

11,092 K

temperature

1.73

apparent magnitude

170× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

101 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

170×

the Sun's light output

-0.72

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AlnairB-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Tau1Gru →15 ly apart
The Ind →18 ly apart
Zet Gru →20 ly apart
HR 8100 →22 ly apart
HR 8027 →22 ly apart
HR 8814 →23 ly apart

Bright stars in Grus

Tiaki →mag 2.1
Aldhanab →mag 3.0
Eps Gru →mag 3.5
Iot Gru →mag 3.9
Del1Gru →mag 4.0
Zet Gru →mag 4.1
Del2Gru →mag 4.1
The Gru →mag 4.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 1.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.