B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Cen

306 lybrightness mag 2.33B1Vn + A

Also catalogued as HR 5440 · HD 127972 · HIP 71352

12,630 K

temperature

2.33

apparent magnitude

895× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1Vn + A

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

306 years

at light speed from Earth

2.19×

as hot as the Sun

895×

the Sun's light output

-2.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5398 →17 ly apart
HR 5419 →21 ly apart
Tau2Lup →24 ly apart
HR 5494 →30 ly apart
HR 5572 →40 ly apart
Rho Lup →41 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
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 2.3To 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.