B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5488

HR 5488 is a blue-white star in the constellation Circinus 1,148 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 392× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,148 years ago.

1,148 lybrightness mag 6.10B2III

Also catalogued as HD 129557 · HIP 72121

11,031 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
392× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,148 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
392×
the Sun's light output
-1.63
absolute magnitude
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HR 5488B-type
Sky regionCircinusthis direction
StarHR 546124 ly
StarHR 5358110 ly
StarHR 5311150 ly
StarXamistar
StarBeta Cirstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Circinus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.