A-type star · white star
HR 5751
HR 5751 is a white star in the constellation Lupus 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,071 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 175 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 138204 · HIP 76063
8,071 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
8.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
175 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
8.08×
the Sun's light output
2.58
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.