A-type star · white star

Seginus

Seginus is a white star in the constellation Boötes 86.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,233 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.

86.8 lybrightness mag 3.04A7IIIvar

Also catalogued as Gamma Boo · HR 5435 · HD 127762 · HIP 71075

8,233 K
temperature
3.04
apparent magnitude
37.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
87 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
37.50×
the Sun's light output
0.92
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.