B-type star · blue-white star

Psi Cen

259 lybrightness mag 4.05A0IV

Also catalogued as HR 5367 · HD 125473 · HIP 70090

10,516 K

temperature

4.05

apparent magnitude

132× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

259 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

132×

the Sun's light output

-0.45

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Psi CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5357 →20 ly apart
HR 5558 →37 ly apart
HR 5224 →50 ly apart
HR 5489 →50 ly apart
HR 5401 →51 ly apart
HR 5682 →52 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 4.0To 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.