B-type star · blue-white star

Xi 2Cen

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Xi 2CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5071 →51 ly apart
HR 4732 →56 ly apart
HR 5029 →61 ly apart
HR 4880 →62 ly apart
Eps Cen →63 ly apart
HR 5176 →63 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 4.3To 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.