B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5375
HR 5375 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 2,189 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,103 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,424× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 2,189 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 125721 · HIP 70270
12,103 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
1,424× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,189 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
1,424×
the Sun's light output
-3.03
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.