A-type star · white star
HR 5887
HR 5887 is a white star in the constellation Draco 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,802 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 241 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 141675 · HIP 77370
7,802 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
21.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
241 years
at light speed from Earth
1.35×
as hot as the Sun
21.68×
the Sun's light output
1.51
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.