B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5206

1,591 lybrightness mag 5.77B2Vp

Also catalogued as HD 120640 · HIP 67663

12,549 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

1,020× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2Vp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,591 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

1,020×

the Sun's light output

-2.67

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5206B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 125809 →150 ly apart
HR 5061 →210 ly apart
HR 5450 →300 ly apart
Ups2Cen →330 ly apart
HD 133518 →370 ly apart
HD 129624 →400 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 5.8To 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.