B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5230

HR 5230 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 353 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 353 years ago.

353 lybrightness mag 5.66B8V

Also catalogued as HD 121190 · HIP 67973

11,122 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
55.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
353 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
55.56×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 5230B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 525113 ly
StarHD 11972720 ly
StarHR 538032 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.