B-type star · blue-white star

The Ret

461 lybrightness mag 5.88B+...

Also catalogued as HR 1372 · HD 27657 · HIP 20020

10,956 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

77.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

461 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

77.27×

the Sun's light output

0.13

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The RetB-type

Sky regionReticulumthis direction

Nearest stars

Gam Ret →20 ly apart
HR 1540 →35 ly apart
HR 1096 →47 ly apart
HR 1357 →52 ly apart
The Dor →66 ly apart
Del Ret →70 ly apart

Bright stars in Reticulum

Rhombus →mag 3.3
Bet Ret →mag 3.8
Eps Ret →mag 4.4
Gam Ret →mag 4.5
Del Ret →mag 4.6
Kap Ret →mag 4.7
Iot Ret →mag 5.0
Zet2Ret →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.