F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5830
HR 5830 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Boötes 116 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,141 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 116 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 139798 · HIP 76568
7,141 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
5.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
116 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
5.51×
the Sun's light output
3.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.