A-type star · white star

HR 5278

510 lybrightness mag 6.20A5III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 122844 · HIP 68842

7,974 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

70.40× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5III/IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

510 years

at light speed from Earth

1.38×

as hot as the Sun

70.40×

the Sun's light output

0.23

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5278A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5316 →37 ly apart
HR 5266 →39 ly apart
HR 5176 →47 ly apart
HR 5122 →48 ly apart
HR 5234 →55 ly apart
HR 5134 →55 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 6.2To 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.