B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5157

2,001 lybrightness mag 5.96B8III

Also catalogued as HD 119361 · HIP 66984

11,169 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

1,354× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,001 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

1,354×

the Sun's light output

-2.98

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5157B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5060 →120 ly apart
HR 5039 →290 ly apart
HR 5375 →390 ly apart
HR 5206 →440 ly apart
HR 5308 →470 ly apart
HD 125809 →520 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.