A-type star · white star
HR 5071
HR 5071 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 507 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,444 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 203× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 507 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 117150 · HIP 65810
9,444 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
203× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
507 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
203×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
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.