B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5121

412 lybrightness mag 5.91B8V

Also catalogued as HD 118354 · HIP 66454

11,744 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

60.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

412 years

at light speed from Earth

2.03×

as hot as the Sun

60.20×

the Sun's light output

0.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5121B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5118 →17 ly apart
HR 5029 →21 ly apart
Ups1Cen →33 ly apart
HR 5046 →34 ly apart
Leepwal →38 ly apart
HR 5158 →41 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.