A-type star · white star

HD 59640

269 lybrightness mag 6.49A3V

Also catalogued as HIP 35946

8,839 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
14.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
269 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
14.98×
the Sun's light output
1.91
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Volans

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.