B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5790

347 lybrightness mag 6.26B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 138923 · HIP 76395

11,092 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

30.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

347 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

30.96×

the Sun's light output

1.12

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5790B-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

4Psi2Lup →21 ly apart
40Tau Lib →29 ly apart
2 Lup →36 ly apart
HR 5974 →38 ly apart
HR 5773 →38 ly apart
HR 5860 →41 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Gam Lup →mag 2.8
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To 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.