K-type star · orange

2 Cen

183 lybrightness mag 4.19M5III

Also catalogued as HR 5192 · HD 120323 · HIP 67457

3,764 K

temperature

4.19

apparent magnitude

57.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

183 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

57.81×

the Sun's light output

0.45

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

2 CenK-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5208 →8.9 ly apart
HR 5222 →13 ly apart
HR 5212 →14 ly apart
HR 5098 →26 ly apart
48 Hya →31 ly apart
HR 5058 →31 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 4.2To 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.