B-type star · blue-white star

Del Cen

415 lybrightness mag 2.58B2IVne

Also catalogued as HR 4621 · HD 105435 · HIP 59196

12,066 K

temperature

2.58

apparent magnitude

1,310× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IVne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

415 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

1,310×

the Sun's light output

-2.94

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Del CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Sig Cen →23 ly apart
HR 4618 →23 ly apart
HD 104839 →32 ly apart
HR 4516 →37 ly apart
Rho Cen →38 ly apart
HR 4732 →40 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1
Kap Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.6To 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.