B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5466

HR 5466 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 619 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,263 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 169× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 619 years ago.

619 lybrightness mag 5.67Ap Si

Also catalogued as HD 128974 · HIP 71783

11,263 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
169× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
619 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
169×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 5466B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 556255 ly
StarHR 560472 ly
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StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.