B-type star · blue-white star

Lam Cen

420 lybrightness mag 3.11B9II:

Also catalogued as HR 4467 · HD 100841 · HIP 56561

10,709 K

temperature

3.11

apparent magnitude

823× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9II:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

420 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

823×

the Sun's light output

-2.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Lam CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4401 →23 ly apart
Mu Mus →31 ly apart
HR 4615 →32 ly apart
HR 4325 →32 ly apart
HR 4326 →34 ly apart
HR 4522 →34 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
Kap Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.1To 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.