Sky of Your Day
  1. Stars with a name
  2. Belel

Belel

HD 181342

Belel is an orange giant, in the constellation Sagittarius. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1665.

Where to find it

Too faint for the naked eye: you’ll need binoculars. Apparent magnitude 7.55.

What it’s like

It gives off 10 times as much light as the Sun.

Its surface is at about 4,700 degrees.

It is 360.8 light years away: 3413 trillion kilometres.

Other named stars in Sagittarius