B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5206

HR 5206 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 1,591 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,549 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,020× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,591 years ago.

1,591 lybrightness mag 5.77B2Vp

Also catalogued as HD 120640 · HIP 67663

12,549 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

1,020× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2Vp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,591 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

1,020×

the Sun's light output

-2.67

absolute magnitude

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HR 5206B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

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.