B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5066

HR 5066 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,303 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 612 years ago.

612 lybrightness mag 6.17B8V

Also catalogued as HD 116890 · HIP 65755

10,303 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
612 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 5066B-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 490753 ly
StarHR 501263 ly
StarHR 480482 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.