B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5230

353 lybrightness mag 5.66B8V

Also catalogued as HD 121190 · HIP 67973

11,122 K

temperature

5.66

apparent magnitude

55.56× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

353 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

55.56×

the Sun's light output

0.49

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5230B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5251 →13 ly apart
HD 119727 →20 ly apart
HR 5380 →32 ly apart
HR 5158 →38 ly apart
Leepwal →43 ly apart
HR 5427 →43 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 5.7To 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.