B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5217

HR 5217 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 901 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,014 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 298× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 901 years ago.

901 lybrightness mag 5.87B5III

Also catalogued as HD 120908 · HIP 67836

10,014 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
298× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
901 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
298×
the Sun's light output
-1.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 5217B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 515271 ly
StarHR 529693 ly
StarHD 128154100 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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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.