A-type star · white star
HR 541
HR 541 is a white star in the constellation Phoenix 252 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,537 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 252 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 11413 · HIP 8593
8,537 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
21.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
252 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
21.82×
the Sun's light output
1.50
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.