A-type star · white star

Kulou

58.8 lybrightness mag 2.75A2V

Also catalogued as Iot Cen · HR 5028 · HD 115892 · HIP 65109 · Gliese Gl 508.1

9,349 K

temperature

2.75

apparent magnitude

22.47× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

59 years

at light speed from Earth

1.62×

as hot as the Sun

22.47×

the Sun's light output

1.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

KulouA-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

1 Cen →8.1 ly apart
HR 4979 →8.9 ly apart
Menkent →9.5 ly apart
HR 5209 →16 ly apart
HR 5356 →17 ly apart
HR 5325 →18 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
Lam Cen →mag 3.1
Kap Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To 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.