B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5628

HR 5628 is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 979 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,150 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 307× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 979 years ago.

979 lybrightness mag 6.02B8/B9III

Also catalogued as HD 133981 · HIP 74421

10,150 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
307× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
979 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
307×
the Sun's light output
-1.37
absolute magnitude
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HR 5628B-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHD 13002179 ly
StarHR 568494 ly
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StarGamma Apsstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Apus

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.