A-type star · white star
11 Boo
11 Boo is a white star in the constellation Boötes 297 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,218 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 297 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5263 · HD 122405 · HIP 68478
8,218 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
23.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
297 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
23.23×
the Sun's light output
1.44
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.