A-type star · white star

HR 5355

HR 5355 is a white star in the constellation Virgo 333 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,966 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 333 years ago.

333 lybrightness mag 5.86Ap Si(Cr)

Also catalogued as HD 125248 · HIP 69929

9,966 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
41.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si(Cr)
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
333 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
41.08×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.