B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5115

771 lybrightness mag 6.32B8IV

Also catalogued as HD 118285 · HIP 66607

10,163 K

temperature

6.32

apparent magnitude

144× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

771 years

at light speed from Earth

1.76×

as hot as the Sun

144×

the Sun's light output

-0.55

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5115B-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5240 →44 ly apart
HR 5547 →67 ly apart
HD 129899 →87 ly apart
HR 5194 →93 ly apart
HR 5188 →100 ly apart
Kap2Aps →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Chamaeleon

Alp Cha →mag 4.0
Gam Cha →mag 4.1
Bet Cha →mag 4.2
The Cha →mag 4.3
Del2Cha →mag 4.5
Eps Cha →mag 4.9
Kap Cha →mag 5.0
Zet Cha →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Chamaeleon

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.