B-type star · blue-white star

The Cir

1,510 lybrightness mag 5.08B4Vnp

Also catalogued as HR 5551 · HD 131492 · HIP 73129

10,422 K

temperature

5.08

apparent magnitude

1,735× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4Vnp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,510 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

1,735×

the Sun's light output

-3.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The CirB-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5527 →140 ly apart
HR 5500 →140 ly apart
HR 5836 →170 ly apart
HR 5661 →190 ly apart
HR 5939 →220 ly apart
HR 5898 →220 ly apart

Bright stars in Circinus

Xami →mag 3.2
Bet Cir →mag 4.1
Gam Cir →mag 4.5
Eps Cir →mag 4.8
Del Cir →mag 5.0
Eta Cir →mag 5.2
Zet Cir →mag 6.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Circinus

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.