F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5989

HR 5989 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 285 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,812 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 285 years ago.

285 lybrightness mag 6.35F2IV

Also catalogued as HD 144362 · HIP 78849

6,812 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
19.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
285 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
19.16×
the Sun's light output
1.64
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.