A-type star · white star

HR 6139

627 lybrightness mag 6.05A2V

Also catalogued as HD 148542 · HIP 83255

9,619 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

122× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

627 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

122×

the Sun's light output

-0.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6139A-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 165338 →75 ly apart
HR 8129 →78 ly apart
HR 7812 →80 ly apart
HD 172226 →84 ly apart
Eps Aps →85 ly apart
Del2Aps →85 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.