B-type star · blue-white star

Phi Cen

525 lybrightness mag 3.83B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 5248 · HD 121743 · HIP 68245

14,192 K

temperature

3.83

apparent magnitude

664× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

525 years

at light speed from Earth

2.46×

as hot as the Sun

664×

the Sun's light output

-2.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Phi CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Chi Cen →21 ly apart
HR 5294 →22 ly apart
Mu Cen →25 ly apart
HR 5136 →46 ly apart
HD 126093 →49 ly apart
HR 5400 →68 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 3.8To 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.