A-type star · white star

HR 359

HR 359 is a white star in the constellation Sculptor 226 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,585 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 226 years ago.

226 lybrightness mag 5.95A9IV: (+F/G)

Also catalogued as HD 7312 · HIP 5661

7,585 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
17.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9IV: (+F/G)
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
226 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
17.49×
the Sun's light output
1.74
absolute magnitude
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HR 359A-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 40820 ly
StarGamma Phe26 ly
StarSigma Scl27 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.