A-type star · white star

HR 5036

HR 5036 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus. Its surface is about 9,308 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41,304,750× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.

brightness mag 5.81B2.5Ib

Also catalogued as HD 116084 · HIP 65247

9,308 K
temperature
5.81
apparent magnitude
41,304,750× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
41,304,750×
the Sun's light output
-14.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.