B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5151

2,886 lybrightness mag 6.00B0.5III

Also catalogued as HD 119159 · HIP 66925

11,506 K

temperature

6.00

apparent magnitude

2,716× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B0.5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,886 years

at light speed from Earth

1.99×

as hot as the Sun

2,716×

the Sun's light output

-3.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5151B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5063 →460 ly apart
HR 5498 →520 ly apart
HR 5171 →540 ly apart
HR 4622 →640 ly apart
HR 5308 →790 ly apart
HR 4702 →790 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 6.0To 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.