A-type star · white star

HR 5672

HR 5672 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 497 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,632 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 497 years ago.

497 lybrightness mag 6.18A8Vn

Also catalogued as HD 135384 · HIP 74272

8,632 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
68.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
497 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
68.23×
the Sun's light output
0.27
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

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.