A-type star · white star
HR 5663
HR 5663 is a white star in the constellation Lupus 163 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,086 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 163 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 135235 · HIP 74696
8,086 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
8.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
163 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
8.95×
the Sun's light output
2.47
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.