B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5543

492 lybrightness mag 5.02B7II/III

Also catalogued as HD 131120 · HIP 72800

12,589 K

temperature

5.02

apparent magnitude

194× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

492 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

194×

the Sun's light output

-0.87

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5543B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5508 →14 ly apart
HR 5519 →26 ly apart
HR 5449 →35 ly apart
HR 5579 →40 ly apart
HR 5400 →48 ly apart
HR 5446 →48 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To 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.