B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5217

901 lybrightness mag 5.87B5III

Also catalogued as HD 120908 · HIP 67836

10,014 K

temperature

5.87

apparent magnitude

298× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

901 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

298×

the Sun's light output

-1.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5217B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5152 →71 ly apart
HR 5296 →93 ly apart
HD 128154 →100 ly apart
HR 5103 →130 ly apart
HR 5311 →140 ly apart
HR 5319 →140 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 5.9To 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.