B-type star · blue-white star

HD 104080

397 lybrightness mag 6.36B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HIP 58452

11,263 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

36.91× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

397 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

36.91×

the Sun's light output

0.93

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 104080B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4516 →28 ly apart
HR 4658 →34 ly apart
HR 4546 →38 ly apart
Del Cen →40 ly apart
HD 104839 →41 ly apart
HR 4568 →46 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
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.