A-type star · white star
22 Boo
22 Boo is a white star in the constellation Boötes 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,931 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5405 · HD 126661 · HIP 70602
7,931 K
temperature
5.40
apparent magnitude
47.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
47.86×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.