F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5939

HR 5939 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 1,388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,100 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 427× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,388 years ago.

1,388 lybrightness mag 6.42F8II

Also catalogued as HD 142941 · HIP 78476

6,100 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
427× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,388 years
at light speed from Earth
1.06×
as hot as the Sun
427×
the Sun's light output
-1.73
absolute magnitude
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HR 5939F-type
Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.