B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5207

260 lybrightness mag 5.26B9Vn

Also catalogued as HD 120642 · HIP 67703

11,311 K

temperature

5.26

apparent magnitude

43.53× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

260 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

43.53×

the Sun's light output

0.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5207B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5172 →7.8 ly apart
HR 5141 →16 ly apart
HR 5426 →31 ly apart
HR 5495 →38 ly apart
HR 4996 →39 ly apart
HR 5515 →43 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 5.3To 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.