B-type star · blue-white star

Heng

437 lybrightness mag 3.41B2IV

Also catalogued as Nu Cen · HR 5190 · HD 120307 · HIP 67464

14,219 K

temperature

3.41

apparent magnitude

675× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

437 years

at light speed from Earth

2.46×

as hot as the Sun

675×

the Sun's light output

-2.22

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HengB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5286 →27 ly apart
Ups1Cen →28 ly apart
HR 5118 →33 ly apart
HR 5318 →37 ly apart
HR 5174 →42 ly apart
HR 5121 →46 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 3.4To 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.