B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5320
HR 5320 is a blue-white star in the constellation Circinus 1,305 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,489 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 718× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,305 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 124471 · HIP 69763
11,489 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
718× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,305 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
718×
the Sun's light output
-2.29
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.