B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5949

473 lybrightness mag 6.31A0V

Also catalogued as HD 143187 · HIP 78017

10,488 K

temperature

6.31

apparent magnitude

54.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

473 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

54.90×

the Sun's light output

0.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5949B-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5841 →24 ly apart
HR 5731 →49 ly apart
HR 6130 →50 ly apart
HR 6038 →54 ly apart
HR 6198 →67 ly apart
HR 5552 →70 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.