B-type star · blue-white star
HD 129899
HD 129899 is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 832 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,435 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 832 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 72670
10,435 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
832 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
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.