F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5130

HR 5130 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 226 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,875 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 226 years ago.

226 lybrightness mag 5.79F3III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 118666 · HIP 66681

6,875 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
20.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
226 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
20.29×
the Sun's light output
1.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 5130F-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 524119 ly
StarHR 529523 ly
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.