A-type star · white star

HR 5623

HR 5623 is a white star in the constellation Circinus 592 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,444 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 592 years ago.

592 lybrightness mag 6.25A0p

Also catalogued as HD 133792 · HIP 74181

9,444 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

90.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

592 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

90.70×

the Sun's light output

-0.04

absolute magnitude

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HR 5623A-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

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Bright stars in Circinus

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Circinus

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.