B-type star · blue-white star

Arkab Prior

314 lybrightness mag 3.96B9V

Also catalogued as Bet1Sgr · HR 7337 · HD 181454 · HIP 95241

11,327 K

temperature

3.96

apparent magnitude

210× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

314 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

210×

the Sun's light output

-0.95

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Arkab PriorB-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

StarHR 728118 ly

StarHR 733421 ly

StarHR 712233 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

HR 7281 →18 ly apart
HR 7334 →21 ly apart
HR 7122 →33 ly apart
HR 7552 →40 ly apart
Eta1CrA →41 ly apart
HR 7190 →42 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Ascella →mag 2.6
Kaus Media →mag 2.7
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.