F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5252
HR 5252 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 193 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,258 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 193 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 121901 · HIP 68413
7,258 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
7.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
193 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
7.77×
the Sun's light output
2.62
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.