Star
Sadr
Sadr is a yellow-white star 1 832 light-years away, seen as it was 1 832 years ago, shining 35 253 times as bright as the Sun.
The star at the crossing of the Northern Cross, an F-type supergiant surrounded by the diffuse nebula IC 1318. It has enough mass to explode as a supernova.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 1 832 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 2.23
- Spectral type
- F8Ib
- Catalogue
- HIP 100453
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.