A-type star · white star

HR 5587

HR 5587 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,852 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 418 years ago.

418 lybrightness mag 6.21A8/A9III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 132763 · HIP 73559

7,852 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
46.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8/A9III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
418 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
46.86×
the Sun's light output
0.67
absolute magnitude
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HR 5587A-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.