F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5900

HR 5900 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Norma 167 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,129 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 167 years ago.

167 lybrightness mag 5.78Amvar

Also catalogued as HD 142049 · HIP 77990

7,129 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

11.16× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

Amvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

167 years

at light speed from Earth

1.24×

as hot as the Sun

11.16×

the Sun's light output

2.23

absolute magnitude

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HR 5900F-type

Sky regionNormathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Norma

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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.