B-type star · blue-white star

55 Dra

305 lybrightness mag 6.26A0V

Also catalogued as HR 7290 · HD 179933 · HIP 94140

10,027 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

23.83× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

305 years

at light speed from Earth

1.74×

as hot as the Sun

23.83×

the Sun's light output

1.41

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

55 DraB-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7187 →12 ly apart
HR 7191 →22 ly apart
Fafnir →26 ly apart
43Phi Dra →37 ly apart
37 Dra →41 ly apart
HR 7117 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.