B-type star · blue-white star

Xi² Cen

Xi² Cen is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,166 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 350× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 4.27B1.5V

Also catalogued as HR 4942 · HD 113791 · HIP 64004

13,166 K
temperature
4.27
apparent magnitude
350× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
2.28×
as hot as the Sun
350×
the Sun's light output
-1.51
absolute magnitude
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Xi² CenB-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 507151 ly
StarHR 473256 ly
StarHR 502961 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.