B-type star · blue-white star

Eps Cen

427 lybrightness mag 2.29B1III

Also catalogued as HR 5132 · HD 118716 · HIP 66657

12,924 K

temperature

2.29

apparent magnitude

1,815× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

427 years

at light speed from Earth

2.24×

as hot as the Sun

1,815×

the Sun's light output

-3.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eps CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5026 →29 ly apart
HR 5234 →35 ly apart
HR 5158 →43 ly apart
HR 5046 →46 ly apart
HR 5024 →52 ly apart
HR 4885 →53 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1
Kap Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.3To 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.