F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5268

124 lybrightness mag 6.18F6V

Also catalogued as HD 122510 · HIP 68641

6,481 K

temperature

6.18

apparent magnitude

4.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

124 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

4.28×

the Sun's light output

3.27

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5268F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5542 →24 ly apart
49Pi Hya →26 ly apart
HD 133469 →30 ly apart
HR 5128 →30 ly apart
46Gam Hya →31 ly apart
HR 4922 →32 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.