F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 113537
HD 113537 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 329 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,807 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 329 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 63849
6,807 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
23.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
329 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
23.59×
the Sun's light output
1.42
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.