B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5327
HR 5327 is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 968 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,138 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 207× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 968 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 124639 · HIP 70418
10,138 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
207× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
968 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
207×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
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.