B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5140

782 lybrightness mag 5.38B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 118978 · HIP 66849

10,502 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

353× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

782 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

353×

the Sun's light output

-1.52

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5140B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5296 →120 ly apart
HR 5152 →130 ly apart
HR 5217 →140 ly apart
HR 5194 →150 ly apart
HD 108395 →160 ly apart
HR 4736 →180 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 5.4To 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.