A-type star · white star

HR 4543

HR 4543 is a white star in the constellation Leo 168 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,500 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 168 years ago.

168 lybrightness mag 6.37A5m

Also catalogued as HD 102910 · HIP 57779

7,500 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
6.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
168 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
6.56×
the Sun's light output
2.81
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Leo

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.