F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5534
HR 5534 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Boötes 59.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,063 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 130948 · HIP 72567 · Gliese Gl 564
6,063 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
1.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
1.30×
the Sun's light output
4.56
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.