B-type star · blue-white star

Chi Cen

510 lybrightness mag 4.36B2V

Also catalogued as HR 5285 · HD 122980 · HIP 68862

13,537 K

temperature

4.36

apparent magnitude

384× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

510 years

at light speed from Earth

2.35×

as hot as the Sun

384×

the Sun's light output

-1.61

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Chi CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Phi Cen →21 ly apart
HR 5294 →26 ly apart
Mu Cen →30 ly apart
HD 126093 →43 ly apart
HR 5400 →47 ly apart
HR 5136 →47 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 4.4To 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.