A-type star · white star

HR 5964

HR 5964 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,532 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 160 years ago.

160 lybrightness mag 6.04F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 143584 · HIP 78286

7,532 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
8.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
160 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
8.02×
the Sun's light output
2.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 5964A-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.