A-type star · white star

HR 5349

HR 5349 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 158 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,585 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 158 years ago.

158 lybrightness mag 5.22Am

Also catalogued as HD 125158 · HIP 70035

7,585 K
temperature
5.22
apparent magnitude
16.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
158 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
16.63×
the Sun's light output
1.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 5349A-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 54829.3 ly
StarHR 554613 ly
StarHR 546521 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.