B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5269
HR 5269 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 717 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,779 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 717 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 122532 · HIP 68673
11,779 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8 Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
717 years
at light speed from Earth
2.04×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
absolute magnitude
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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.