B-type star · blue-white star

Kappa Cen

Kappa Cen is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,781 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 673× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

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

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Kappa CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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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.