B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5035
HR 5035 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,312 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 160× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 355 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 116087 · HIP 65271
12,312 K
temperature
4.52
apparent magnitude
160× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
2.13×
as hot as the Sun
160×
the Sun's light output
-0.66
absolute magnitude
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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.