A-type star · white star

Kulou

Kulou is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 58.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,349 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.

58.8 lybrightness mag 2.75A2V

Also catalogued as Iota 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
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KulouA-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
Star1 Cen8.1 ly
StarHR 49798.9 ly
StarMenkent9.5 ly
StarGamma Censtar
StarEpsilon Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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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.