A-type star · white star
50 Dra
50 Dra is a white star in the constellation Draco 280 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,552 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 280 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7124 · HD 175286 · HIP 92112
9,552 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
45.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
280 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
45.62×
the Sun's light output
0.70
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.