A-type star · white star

HR 5076

HR 5076 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,733 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 6.34F0

Also catalogued as HD 117242 · HIP 65678

7,733 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
24.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
318 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
24.12×
the Sun's light output
1.39
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

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.