A-type star · white star

HR 5106

HR 5106 is a white star in the constellation Virgo 483 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,882 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 483 years ago.

483 lybrightness mag 5.92A0V

Also catalogued as HD 118054 · HIP 66247

9,882 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
81.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
483 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
81.88×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.