B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4951

326 lybrightness mag 5.70B8V

Also catalogued as HD 113902 · HIP 64053

10,956 K

temperature

5.70

apparent magnitude

45.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

326 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

45.79×

the Sun's light output

0.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4951B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4872 →16 ly apart
Matza →20 ly apart
HD 109675 →33 ly apart
HD 113537 →36 ly apart
HD 119727 →37 ly apart
HR 4832 →38 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 5.7To 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.