B-type star · blue-white star

HD 158042

1,864 lybrightness mag 6.30B5III

Also catalogued as HIP 85549

10,252 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
859× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,864 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
859×
the Sun's light output
-2.48
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scorpius

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.