B-type star · blue-white star

Rho Cen

379 lybrightness mag 3.97B3V

Also catalogued as HR 4638 · HD 105937 · HIP 59449

12,610 K

temperature

3.97

apparent magnitude

303× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

379 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

303×

the Sun's light output

-1.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Rho CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 104839 →11 ly apart
HR 4516 →38 ly apart
Del Cen →38 ly apart
HR 4834 →40 ly apart
HR 4706 →40 ly apart
Sig Cen →40 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.