B-type star · blue-white star

Kap Cen

383 lybrightness mag 3.13B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 5576 · HD 132200 · HIP 73334

13,781 K

temperature

3.13

apparent magnitude

673× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

383 years

at light speed from Earth

2.39×

as hot as the Sun

673×

the Sun's light output

-2.22

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bet Lup →6.9 ly apart
HR 5625 →13 ly apart
HR 5561 →21 ly apart
Omi Lup →25 ly apart
HR 5624 →27 ly apart
HR 5585 →28 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 3.1To 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.