A-type star · white star
HD 132953
HD 132953 is a white star in the constellation Libra 664 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,321 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 101× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 664 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 73571
8,321 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
101× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
664 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
101×
the Sun's light output
-0.17
absolute magnitude
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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.