A-type star · white star
HR 5229
HR 5229 is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 214 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,148 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 214 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 121164 · HIP 67782
8,148 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
16.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
214 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
16.28×
the Sun's light output
1.82
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.