K-type star · orange
Bet Ara
Also catalogued as HR 6461 · HD 157244 · HIP 85258
3,825 K
temperature
2.84
apparent magnitude
2,498× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3Ib-II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
646 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
2,498×
the Sun's light output
-3.64
absolute magnitude
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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.