A-type star · white star

Xi¹ Cen

Xi¹ Cen is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,777 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 4.83A0V

Also catalogued as HR 4933 · HD 113314 · HIP 63724

9,777 K
temperature
4.83
apparent magnitude
46.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
46.56×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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Xi¹ CenA-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 499617 ly
StarHR 478220 ly
StarHR 500824 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.