B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5115
HR 5115 is a blue-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 771 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,163 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 144× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 771 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 118285 · HIP 66607
10,163 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
144× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
771 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
144×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
absolute magnitude
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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.