B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5296

HR 5296 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 819 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 227× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 819 years ago.

819 lybrightness mag 5.96B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 123515 · HIP 69174

10,838 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
227× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
819 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
227×
the Sun's light output
-1.04
absolute magnitude
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HR 5296B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 515268 ly
StarHR 521793 ly
StarHD 12815496 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.