B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5579

530 lybrightness mag 6.45B8V

Also catalogued as HD 132238 · HIP 73341

11,247 K

temperature

6.45

apparent magnitude

60.59× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

530 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

60.59×

the Sun's light output

0.39

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5579B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5519 →27 ly apart
HR 5508 →37 ly apart
HR 5543 →40 ly apart
Phi2Lup →46 ly apart
HR 5687 →48 ly apart
HR 5449 →66 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.