B-type star · blue-white star

HD 163071

2,938 lybrightness mag 6.26B4III

Also catalogued as HIP 87928

11,031 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

2,214× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,938 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

2,214×

the Sun's light output

-3.51

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 163071B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 164896 →360 ly apart
HR 6478 →400 ly apart
HR 6408 →520 ly apart
HR 6219 →530 ly apart
HD 143548 →790 ly apart
HR 6197 →800 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp 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

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.