B-type star · blue-white star

3 Cen

344 lybrightness mag 4.32B5

Also catalogued as HR 5210 · HD 120709 · HIP 67669

12,409 K
temperature
4.32
apparent magnitude
181× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
344 years
at light speed from Earth
2.15×
as hot as the Sun
181×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.