B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5951

322 lybrightness mag 6.25B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 143238 · HIP 78603

10,316 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

26.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

322 years

at light speed from Earth

1.79×

as hot as the Sun

26.79×

the Sun's light output

1.28

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5951B-type

Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction

Nearest stars

HD 144481 →13 ly apart
The TrA →34 ly apart
HR 6182 →37 ly apart
Eta Ara →43 ly apart
HR 5713 →45 ly apart
HR 6073 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Triangulum Australe

Atria →mag 1.9
Bet TrA →mag 2.8
Gam TrA →mag 2.9
Del TrA →mag 3.9
Eps TrA →mag 4.1
Zet TrA →mag 4.9
Kap TrA →mag 5.1
Iot TrA →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Triangulum Australe

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.