A-type star · white star
HR 5120
HR 5120 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 266 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,011 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 266 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 118349 · HIP 66400
8,011 K
temperature
5.73
apparent magnitude
29.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
266 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
29.59×
the Sun's light output
1.17
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.