B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5500

1,406 lybrightness mag 5.91B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 129954 · HIP 72438

11,675 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

700× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,406 years

at light speed from Earth

2.02×

as hot as the Sun

700×

the Sun's light output

-2.26

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5500B-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5320 →130 ly apart
Zet Cir →130 ly apart
The Cir →140 ly apart
HD 137366 →190 ly apart
HR 5939 →200 ly apart
HR 5898 →230 ly apart

Bright stars in Circinus

Xami →mag 3.2
Bet Cir →mag 4.1
Gam Cir →mag 4.5
Eps Cir →mag 4.8
Del Cir →mag 5.0
The Cir →mag 5.1
Eta Cir →mag 5.2
Zet Cir →mag 6.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.