B-type star · blue-white star

HD 143658

HD 143658 is a blue-white star in the constellation Norma 748 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 748 years ago.

748 lybrightness mag 6.46B9II/IIIp..

Also catalogued as HIP 78731

10,051 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9II/IIIp..
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
748 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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HD 143658B-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
StarHR 605536 ly
StarHR 620780 ly
StarHR 5865100 ly
StarGamma² Norstar
StarEpsilon Norstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Norma
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Norma

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.