F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5401

HR 5401 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lupus 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,393 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 5.83Am

Also catalogued as HD 126504 · HIP 70663

7,393 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
18.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
18.67×
the Sun's light output
1.67
absolute magnitude
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HR 5401F-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.