B-type star · blue-white star
Heng
Heng is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 437 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,219 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 675× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 437 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.