A-type star · white star

HR 5715

HR 5715 is a white star in the constellation Boötes 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,820 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 5.65A4V

Also catalogued as HD 136729 · HIP 75043

8,820 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
21.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
21.92×
the Sun's light output
1.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 5715A-type
Sky regionBoötesthis direction
StarHD 13594419 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.