F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5979

1,531 lybrightness mag 6.16F2II

Also catalogued as HD 144183 · HIP 78989

6,108 K

temperature

6.16

apparent magnitude

659× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,531 years

at light speed from Earth

1.06×

as hot as the Sun

659×

the Sun's light output

-2.20

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5979F-type

Sky regionNormathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6022 →99 ly apart
HR 5836 →140 ly apart
Gam1Nor →180 ly apart
HR 5898 →200 ly apart
HR 5738 →200 ly apart
HR 6114 →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Norma

Gam2Nor →mag 4.0
Eps Nor →mag 4.5
Iot1Nor →mag 4.6
Eta Nor →mag 4.7
Del Nor →mag 4.7
Mu Nor →mag 4.9
Kap Nor →mag 5.0
Gam1Nor →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Norma

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.