B-type star · blue-white star

HD 104839

384 lybrightness mag 6.48B9V

Also catalogued as HIP 58859

10,738 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

30.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

384 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

30.85×

the Sun's light output

1.13

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 104839B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Rho Cen →11 ly apart
HR 4516 →27 ly apart
Del Cen →32 ly apart
Sig Cen →39 ly apart
HD 104080 →41 ly apart
HR 4476 →48 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.