B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5668

2,064 lybrightness mag 6.05B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 135348 · HIP 74716

12,066 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

1,327× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,064 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

1,327×

the Sun's light output

-2.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5668B-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5667 →310 ly apart
HR 5375 →410 ly apart
1 Lup →430 ly apart
HR 5637 →450 ly apart
HR 5873 →480 ly apart
HR 6131 →510 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.