B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5066

612 lybrightness mag 6.17B8V

Also catalogued as HD 116890 · HIP 65755

10,303 K

temperature

6.17

apparent magnitude

104× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

612 years

at light speed from Earth

1.78×

as hot as the Sun

104×

the Sun's light output

-0.20

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5066B-type

Sky regionMuscathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4907 →53 ly apart
HR 5012 →63 ly apart
HR 4804 →82 ly apart
HD 128294 →97 ly apart
Iot2Mus →100 ly apart
HR 4736 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Musca

Alp Mus →mag 2.7
Bet Mus →mag 3.0
Del Mus →mag 3.6
Lam Mus →mag 3.6
Gam Mus →mag 3.8
Eps Mus →mag 4.1
Mu Mus →mag 4.8
Eta Mus →mag 4.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Musca

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.