A-type star · white star

HR 5008

212 lybrightness mag 5.82Am

Also catalogued as HD 115331 · HIP 64822

8,265 K

temperature

5.82

apparent magnitude

17.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

212 years

at light speed from Earth

1.43×

as hot as the Sun

17.23×

the Sun's light output

1.76

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5008A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4973 →12 ly apart
HR 5058 →18 ly apart
Xi 1Cen →24 ly apart
HR 5175 →30 ly apart
HR 4836 →30 ly apart
HR 4996 →31 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 5.8To 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.