F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5939

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5939F-type

Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5898 →76 ly apart
HR 6114 →150 ly apart
HR 5500 →200 ly apart
Zet Cir →210 ly apart
HR 5836 →210 ly apart
Kap TrA →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Triangulum Australe

Atria →mag 1.9
Bet TrA →mag 2.8
Gam TrA →mag 2.9
Del TrA →mag 3.9
Eps TrA →mag 4.1
Zet TrA →mag 4.9
Kap TrA →mag 5.1
Iot TrA →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

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.