A-type star · white star

Polaris Australis

281 lybrightness mag 5.45F0III

Also catalogued as Sig Oct · HR 7228 · HD 177482 · HIP 104382

7,572 K

temperature

5.45

apparent magnitude

42.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

281 years

at light speed from Earth

1.31×

as hot as the Sun

42.70×

the Sun's light output

0.77

absolute magnitude

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Polaris AustralisA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Kap Oct →24 ly apart
Chi Oct →25 ly apart
Gam1Oct →38 ly apart
Del Oct →38 ly apart
Gam3Oct →42 ly apart
HR 7698 →43 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.