A-type star · white star

Bet Oct

149 lybrightness mag 4.13A9IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 8630 · HD 214846 · HIP 112405

8,102 K

temperature

4.13

apparent magnitude

40.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A9IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

149 years

at light speed from Earth

1.40×

as hot as the Sun

40.66×

the Sun's light output

0.83

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Bet OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Alp Oct →18 ly apart
Mu 2Oct →22 ly apart
Psi Oct →26 ly apart
Sig Hyi →27 ly apart
HR 8994 →30 ly apart
HR 6994 →30 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3
Gam3Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.