A-type star · white star

HR 5169

HR 5169 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 313 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,918 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 313 years ago.

313 lybrightness mag 6.02A1V

Also catalogued as HD 119765 · HIP 67005

9,918 K

temperature

6.02

apparent magnitude

31.42× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

313 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

31.42×

the Sun's light output

1.11

absolute magnitude

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HR 5169A-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.