F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5048

128 lybrightness mag 5.32F2III

Also catalogued as HD 116457 · HIP 65479

6,822 K

temperature

5.32

apparent magnitude

9.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

128 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

9.96×

the Sun's light output

2.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5048F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5000 →2.9 ly apart
HR 5113 →13 ly apart
Iot Cru →15 ly apart
Tupã →15 ly apart
HR 4980 →15 ly apart
HR 4966 →16 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 5.3To 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.