A-type star · white star

HR 5295

HR 5295 is a white star in the constellation Circinus 227 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,241 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 227 years ago.

227 lybrightness mag 6.07A6IV

Also catalogued as HD 123492 · HIP 69298

8,241 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
15.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
227 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
15.70×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Circinus

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.