B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5653
HR 5653 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,263 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 394 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 134837 · HIP 74479
11,263 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
46.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
46.56×
the Sun's light output
0.68
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.