A-type star · white star

HR 5558

HR 5558 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 254 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,585 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 254 years ago.

254 lybrightness mag 5.32A0V

Also catalogued as HD 131625 · HIP 73049

9,585 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
39.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
254 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
39.26×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 5558A-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarPhi¹ Lup34 ly
StarPsi Cen37 ly
StarHR 535737 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.