B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5439

HR 5439 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 367 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,327 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 367 years ago.

367 lybrightness mag 5.88B6V

Also catalogued as HD 127971 · HIP 71353

11,327 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
48.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
367 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
48.98×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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HR 5439B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.