F-type star · yellow-white star

1 Cen

1 Cen is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 63.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,934 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 63 years ago.

63.3 lybrightness mag 4.23F3V

Also catalogued as HR 5168 · HD 119756 · HIP 67153 · Gliese Gl 525.1

6,934 K

temperature

4.23

apparent magnitude

6.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

63 years

at light speed from Earth

1.20×

as hot as the Sun

6.66×

the Sun's light output

2.79

absolute magnitude

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1 CenF-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.