B-type star · blue-white star

50 Boo

262 lybrightness mag 5.38B9Vn

Also catalogued as HR 5718 · HD 136849 · HIP 75178

10,809 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

39.59× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

262 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

39.59×

the Sun's light output

0.86

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

50 BooB-type

Sky regionBoötesthis direction

Nearest stars

1Omi CrB →17 ly apart
48Chi Boo →21 ly apart
HR 5702 →22 ly apart
HR 5769 →26 ly apart
9Pi CrB →28 ly apart
HR 5609 →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Boötes

Izar →mag 2.4
Muphrid →mag 2.7
Seginus →mag 3.0
49Del Boo →mag 3.5
Nekkar →mag 3.5
25Rho Boo →mag 3.6
30Zet Boo →mag 3.8
23The Boo →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.