A-type star · white star
HD 97413
HD 97413 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,528 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 54718
8,528 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
21.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
21.90×
the Sun's light output
1.50
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.