B-type star · blue-white star

HD 133518

HD 133518 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 1,476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,726 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 491× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,476 years ago.

1,476 lybrightness mag 6.40B3III

Also catalogued as HIP 73966

11,726 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
491× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,476 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
491×
the Sun's light output
-1.88
absolute magnitude
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HD 133518B-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
StarHR 5738120 ly
StarHD 129624210 ly
StarHR 5450220 ly
StarUridimstar
StarBeta Lupstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lupus

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.