F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5222

HR 5222 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,654 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.

170 lybrightness mag 5.53F3V

Also catalogued as HD 120987 · HIP 67819

6,654 K

temperature

5.53

apparent magnitude

14.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

170 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

14.60×

the Sun's light output

1.94

absolute magnitude

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HR 5222F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.