A-type star · white star

50 Lib

490 lybrightness mag 5.53A0Vs

Also catalogued as HR 5959 · HD 143459 · HIP 78436

9,619 K

temperature

5.53

apparent magnitude

121× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vs

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

490 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

121×

the Sun's light output

-0.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

50 LibA-type

Sky regionLibrathis direction

StarHR 599025 ly

StarHR 601647 ly

Star48 Lib54 ly

StarZubeneschamalistar

StarZubenelgenubistar

Nearest stars

HR 5990 →25 ly apart
HR 6016 →47 ly apart
48 Lib →54 ly apart
HR 6041 →66 ly apart
25 Ser →74 ly apart
14 Ser →85 ly apart

Bright stars in Libra

Zubeneschamali →mag 2.6
Zubenelgenubi →mag 2.8
Brachium →mag 3.3
39Ups Lib →mag 3.6
40Tau Lib →mag 3.7
Zubenelhakrabi →mag 3.9
46The Lib →mag 4.1
16 Lib →mag 4.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Libra

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.