B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5294
HR 5294 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 525 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,882 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 525 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 123445 · HIP 69113
10,882 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
75.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
525 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
75.51×
the Sun's light output
0.15
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.