B-type star · blue-white star

Sig Cen

412 lybrightness mag 3.91B3V

Also catalogued as HR 4743 · HD 108483 · HIP 60823

13,395 K

temperature

3.91

apparent magnitude

379× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

412 years

at light speed from Earth

2.32×

as hot as the Sun

379×

the Sun's light output

-1.60

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Sig CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Del Cen →23 ly apart
HR 4618 →36 ly apart
HR 4732 →37 ly apart
HD 104839 →39 ly apart
Rho Cen →40 ly apart
HR 4885 →44 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 3.9To 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.