A-type star · white star
HR 5262
HR 5262 is a white star in the constellation Boötes 270 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,135 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 270 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 122365 · HIP 68498
9,135 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
24.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
270 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
24.23×
the Sun's light output
1.39
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.