F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5983
HR 5983 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Corona Borealis 655 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,023 K, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 655 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 144208 · HIP 78649
6,023 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
170× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
655 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
170×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.