B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5063

2,609 lybrightness mag 6.27B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 116862 · HIP 65630

11,975 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

1,730× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,609 years

at light speed from Earth

2.07×

as hot as the Sun

1,730×

the Sun's light output

-3.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5063B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5151 →460 ly apart
HR 5039 →490 ly apart
HR 5375 →570 ly apart
HR 5308 →590 ly apart
HR 4702 →620 ly apart
HR 5171 →620 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 6.3To 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.