A-type star · white star

HR 5898

HR 5898 is a white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 1,376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,830 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 543× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,376 years ago.

1,376 lybrightness mag 6.14B9II

Also catalogued as HD 141913 · HIP 77927

8,830 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
543× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,376 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
543×
the Sun's light output
-1.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 5898A-type
Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Triangulum Australe

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.