B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5313
HR 5313 is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 258 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,885 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 258 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 124224 · HIP 69389
11,885 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
55.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
258 years
at light speed from Earth
2.06×
as hot as the Sun
55.11×
the Sun's light output
0.50
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.