B-type star · blue-white star
HD 98671
HD 98671 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 482 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,076 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 482 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 55332
10,076 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
49.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
482 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
49.52×
the Sun's light output
0.61
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.