B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5860
HR 5860 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,867 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 385 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 140784 · HIP 77286
11,867 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
69.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
2.06×
as hot as the Sun
69.06×
the Sun's light output
0.25
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.