B-type star · blue-white star

Alp Ara

267 lybrightness mag 2.84B2Vne

Also catalogued as HR 6510 · HD 158427 · HIP 85792

12,216 K

temperature

2.84

apparent magnitude

428× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2Vne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

267 years

at light speed from Earth

2.12×

as hot as the Sun

428×

the Sun's light output

-1.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Alp AraB-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6675 →41 ly apart
HR 6597 →46 ly apart
Sargas →48 ly apart
Alp Tel →49 ly apart
HR 6338 →51 ly apart
HR 6786 →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.