B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5061

1,424 lybrightness mag 6.31A0III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 116836 · HIP 65606

10,088 K

temperature

6.31

apparent magnitude

497× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0III/IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,424 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

497×

the Sun's light output

-1.89

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5061B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5206 →210 ly apart
Ups2Cen →220 ly apart
HD 125809 →280 ly apart
HR 5450 →300 ly apart
HR 4938 →310 ly apart
HR 5358 →320 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 6.3To 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.