F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 99953
HD 99953 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus. Its surface is about 7,337 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22,908,677× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.45B2Ia
Also catalogued as HIP 56050
7,337 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
22,908,677× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
22,908,677×
the Sun's light output
-13.55
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.