B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5869

HR 5869 is a blue-white star in the constellation Norma 308 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,184 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 308 years ago.

308 lybrightness mag 5.78B8V

Also catalogued as HD 141168 · HIP 77562

11,184 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
37.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
308 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
37.95×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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HR 5869B-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.