B-type star · blue-white star
HD 128294
HD 128294 is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 587 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,475 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 587 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 71870
10,475 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
82.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
587 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
82.04×
the Sun's light output
0.07
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.