F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5872

HR 5872 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Norma 148 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,468 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 148 years ago.

148 lybrightness mag 6.11F0V

Also catalogued as HD 141296 · HIP 77574

7,468 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
6.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
148 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
6.42×
the Sun's light output
2.83
absolute magnitude
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HR 5872F-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
StarHR 592113 ly
StarHR 566323 ly
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Bright stars in Norma
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.