A-type star · white star
HR 5473
HR 5473 is a white star in the constellation Boötes 166 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,880 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 166 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 129153 · HIP 71759
7,880 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
9.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
166 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
9.55×
the Sun's light output
2.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.