F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5803

HR 5803 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Norma 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,366 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 101 years ago.

101 lybrightness mag 5.95F6V

Also catalogued as HD 139211 · HIP 76716

6,366 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
3.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
101 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
3.47×
the Sun's light output
3.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 5803F-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
StarBeta Cir5.5 ly
StarHR 617713 ly
StarHR 544320 ly
StarGamma² Norstar
StarEpsilon Norstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Norma
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Norma

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.