F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5000

HR 5000 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Musca 126 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,719 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 126 years ago.

126 lybrightness mag 6.06F5V

Also catalogued as HD 115149 · HIP 64790

6,719 K

temperature

6.06

apparent magnitude

4.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

126 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

4.92×

the Sun's light output

3.12

absolute magnitude

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HR 5000F-type

Sky regionMuscathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Musca

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.