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Rho2 Arae is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Ara. It received this designation when the star was catalogued by Bode in his Uranographia. This is a rather dim naked eye star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.54. Based upon an annual parallax shift of just 6.28 mas it is around 520 light-years (160 parsecs) distant from the Sun give or take a 30 light-year margin of error.The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of B9 IV or B9 V.
