F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5465

HR 5465 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Circinus 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,605 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 139 years ago.

139 lybrightness mag 6.21F4V

Also catalogued as HD 128917 · HIP 71861

6,605 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

5.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

139 years

at light speed from Earth

1.14×

as hot as the Sun

5.20×

the Sun's light output

3.06

absolute magnitude

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HR 5465F-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Circinus

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Circinus

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.