A-type star · white star

HR 5037

HR 5037 is a white star in the constellation Virgo 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,596 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 5.69A2V

Also catalogued as HD 116160 · HIP 65198

9,596 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
21.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
21.14×
the Sun's light output
1.54
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.