B-type star · blue-white star

5 Eri

362 lybrightness mag 5.56B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 899 · HD 18633 · HIP 13951

11,122 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

64.21× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

362 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

64.21×

the Sun's light output

0.33

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

5 EriB-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 892 →3.0 ly apart
HD 17001 →40 ly apart
HD 21032 →43 ly apart
8Rho1Eri →50 ly apart
HR 912 →56 ly apart
HR 775 →58 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
16Tau4Eri →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.