B-type star · blue-white star

HR 498

304 lybrightness mag 5.70A0V

Also catalogued as HD 10538 · HIP 7941

10,252 K

temperature

5.70

apparent magnitude

39.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

304 years

at light speed from Earth

1.78×

as hot as the Sun

39.63×

the Sun's light output

0.85

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 498B-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 471 →29 ly apart
HR 445 →30 ly apart
Phi Phe →33 ly apart
HR 588 →34 ly apart
HD 13218 →38 ly apart
Pi For →42 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.