A-type star · white star
HD 174005
HD 174005 is a white star in the constellation Scutum 753 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,852 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 753 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 92296
7,852 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
753 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
118×
the Sun's light output
-0.33
absolute magnitude
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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.