B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5018

HR 5018 is a blue-white star in the constellation Draco 427 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,824 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 427 years ago.

427 lybrightness mag 6.20B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 115612 · HIP 64774

10,824 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
49.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
427 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
49.52×
the Sun's light output
0.61
absolute magnitude
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HR 5018B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.