F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5913
HR 5913 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Serpens 309 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,812 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 309 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 142357 · HIP 77835
6,812 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
25.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
309 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
25.68×
the Sun's light output
1.33
absolute magnitude
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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.