F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5356
HR 5356 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 58.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,308 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 125276 · HIP 69965 · Gliese Gl 542.1A
6,308 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
1.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7Vw
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
1.27×
the Sun's light output
4.59
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.