A-type star · white star
Xuange
Xuange is a white star in the constellation Boötes 99.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,155 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 99 years ago.
Also catalogued as Lambda Boo · HR 5351 · HD 125162 · HIP 69732 · Gliese GJ 3837
9,155 K
temperature
4.18
apparent magnitude
17.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0sh
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
99 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
17.08×
the Sun's light output
1.77
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.