A-type star · white star

HR 5175

HR 5175 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,598 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 212 years ago.

212 lybrightness mag 5.92A3m...

Also catalogued as HD 119938 · HIP 67292

7,598 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
15.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
212 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
15.70×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
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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.