A-type star · white star

HR 5792

HR 5792 is a white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 256 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,256 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 256 years ago.

256 lybrightness mag 6.45A5V

Also catalogued as HD 138965 · HIP 76736

9,256 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
14.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
256 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
14.11×
the Sun's light output
1.98
absolute magnitude
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HR 5792A-type
Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Triangulum Australe

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.