A-type star · white star
HR 5008
HR 5008 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,265 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 212 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 115331 · HIP 64822
8,265 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
17.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
212 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
17.23×
the Sun's light output
1.76
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.