B-type star · blue-white star
10 Boo
10 Boo is a blue-white star in the constellation Boötes 472 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,150 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 472 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5255 · HD 121996 · HIP 68276
10,150 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
90.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
472 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
90.61×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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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.