A-type star · white star
HR 5556
HR 5556 is a white star in the constellation Lupus 201 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,641 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 201 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 131562 · HIP 73095
8,641 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
23.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
201 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
23.21×
the Sun's light output
1.44
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.