A-type star · white star

HR 5608

HR 5608 is a white star in the constellation Draco 345 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,961 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 345 years ago.

345 lybrightness mag 5.91A4V

Also catalogued as HD 133388 · HIP 73507

8,961 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
42.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
345 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
42.11×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.