A-type star · white star

HR 5556

201 lybrightness mag 5.38A2III

Also catalogued as HD 131562 · HIP 73095

8,641 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

23.21× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

201 years

at light speed from Earth

1.50×

as hot as the Sun

23.21×

the Sun's light output

1.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5556A-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5413 →19 ly apart
HR 5458 →26 ly apart
Kap1Lup →26 ly apart
HD 135468 →30 ly apart
HR 5297 →30 ly apart
HR 5871 →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Gam Lup →mag 2.8
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.