A-type star · white star

Sig Scl

232 lybrightness mag 5.50A1/A2IV

Also catalogued as HR 293 · HD 6178 · HIP 4852

9,195 K

temperature

5.50

apparent magnitude

27.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1/A2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

232 years

at light speed from Earth

1.59×

as hot as the Sun

27.87×

the Sun's light output

1.24

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Sig SclA-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 359 →27 ly apart
HR 251 →30 ly apart
Tau Scl →30 ly apart
HR 325 →31 ly apart
Pi Scl →37 ly apart
HR 408 →45 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 5.5To 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.