B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5141

HR 5141 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 271 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,868 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 271 years ago.

271 lybrightness mag 4.99B8Vn+...

Also catalogued as HD 118991 · HIP 66821

10,868 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
60.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Vn+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
271 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
60.81×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 5141B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 520716 ly
StarHR 517217 ly
StarHR 542640 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.