A-type star · white star

HR 5875

HR 5875 is a white star in the constellation Libra 176 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,839 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 176 years ago.

176 lybrightness mag 5.53A5IV

Also catalogued as HD 141378 · HIP 77464

8,839 K

temperature

5.53

apparent magnitude

15.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

176 years

at light speed from Earth

1.53×

as hot as the Sun

15.60×

the Sun's light output

1.87

absolute magnitude

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HR 5875A-type

Sky regionLibrathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Libra

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.