F-type star · yellow-white star

Merga

160 lybrightness mag 5.76F7IVw

Also catalogued as 38 Boo · HR 5533 · HD 130945 · HIP 72487

6,472 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

10.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7IVw

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

160 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

10.38×

the Sun's light output

2.31

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MergaF-type

Sky regionBoötesthis direction

Nearest stars

40 Boo →22 ly apart
17Kap2Boo →23 ly apart
HR 5335 →23 ly apart
HR 5716 →24 ly apart
17Kap1Boo →24 ly apart
HR 5347 →25 ly apart

Bright stars in Boötes

Izar →mag 2.4
Muphrid →mag 2.7
Seginus →mag 3.0
49Del Boo →mag 3.5
Nekkar →mag 3.5
25Rho Boo →mag 3.6
30Zet Boo →mag 3.8
23The Boo →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Boötes

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.