B-type star · blue-white star

5 Eri

5 Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 5.56B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 899 · HD 18633 · HIP 13951

11,122 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

64.21× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

362 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

64.21×

the Sun's light output

0.33

absolute magnitude

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5 EriB-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.