B-type star · blue-white star
HR 5316
HR 5316 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 482 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 185× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 482 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 124367 · HIP 69618
11,153 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
185× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4Vne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
482 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
185×
the Sun's light output
-0.82
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.