A-type star · white star
HR 5918
HR 5918 is a white star in the constellation Lupus 565 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,748 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 100× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 565 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 142448 · HIP 78046
8,748 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
100× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
565 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
100×
the Sun's light output
-0.15
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.