F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 135468
HD 135468 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lupus 185 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,326 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 185 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 74775
6,326 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
7.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
185 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
7.41×
the Sun's light output
2.67
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.