F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 104755
HD 104755 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 229 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,500 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 229 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 58809
6,500 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
11.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
229 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
11.90×
the Sun's light output
2.16
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.