A-type star · white star

HD 565

HD 565 is a white star in the constellation Tucana 431 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 431 years ago.

431 lybrightness mag 6.34A6V

Also catalogued as HIP 798

8,453 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
44.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
431 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
44.34×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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HD 565A-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarHR 891956 ly
StarHR 2363 ly
StarEpsilon Tuc63 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Tucana

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.