A-type star · white star
HR 5374
HR 5374 is a white star in the constellation Boötes 303 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,520 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 303 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 125658 · HIP 70051
8,520 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
19.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
303 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
19.79×
the Sun's light output
1.61
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.