A-type star · white star

HR 5934

HR 5934 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 461 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,978 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 461 years ago.

461 lybrightness mag 5.84B3V

Also catalogued as HD 142883 · HIP 78168

9,978 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
80.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
461 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
80.17×
the Sun's light output
0.09
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.