A-type star · white star

HR 5696

HR 5696 is a white star in the constellation Lupus 356 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,349 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 356 years ago.

356 lybrightness mag 6.21A1V

Also catalogued as HD 136334 · HIP 75164

9,349 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
34.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
356 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
34.07×
the Sun's light output
1.02
absolute magnitude
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HR 5696A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lupus

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.