A-type star · white star

HR 5532

HR 5532 is a white star in the constellation Boötes 321 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,585 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 321 years ago.

321 lybrightness mag 5.80A4V

Also catalogued as HD 130917 · HIP 72552

9,585 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
40.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
321 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
40.40×
the Sun's light output
0.83
absolute magnitude
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Sky regionBoötesthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.