B-type star · blue-white star

Chi Cen

Chi Cen is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,537 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 384× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.

510 lybrightness mag 4.36B2V

Also catalogued as HR 5285 · HD 122980 · HIP 68862

13,537 K
temperature
4.36
apparent magnitude
384× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
2.35×
as hot as the Sun
384×
the Sun's light output
-1.61
absolute magnitude
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Chi CenB-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarPhi Cen21 ly
StarHR 529426 ly
StarMu Cen30 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To 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.