B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5471

HR 5471 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 339 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,630 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 234× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 339 years ago.

339 lybrightness mag 4.01B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 129116 · HIP 71865

12,630 K
temperature
4.01
apparent magnitude
234× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
339 years
at light speed from Earth
2.19×
as hot as the Sun
234×
the Sun's light output
-1.07
absolute magnitude
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HR 5471B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 557223 ly
StarHR 541927 ly
StarHR 560736 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.