B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5296

819 lybrightness mag 5.96B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 123515 · HIP 69174

10,838 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

227× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

819 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

227×

the Sun's light output

-1.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5296B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5152 →68 ly apart
HR 5217 →93 ly apart
HD 128154 →96 ly apart
HR 5140 →120 ly apart
HR 5444 →150 ly apart
HR 5509 →150 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 6.0To 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.