A-type star · white star
51 Sgr
51 Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,281 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7431 · HD 184552 · HIP 96406
8,281 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
39.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
39.34×
the Sun's light output
0.86
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.