B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5103

991 lybrightness mag 6.32B8III

Also catalogued as HD 117919 · HIP 66236

10,824 K

temperature

6.32

apparent magnitude

239× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

991 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

239×

the Sun's light output

-1.09

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5103B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5038 →34 ly apart
HR 4939 →110 ly apart
HR 5217 →130 ly apart
HR 5377 →150 ly apart
HR 5135 →150 ly apart
HR 5319 →150 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.