B-type star · blue-white star

Pi Cen

358 lybrightness mag 3.90B5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 4390 · HD 98718 · HIP 55425

12,630 K

temperature

3.90

apparent magnitude

288× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

358 years

at light speed from Earth

2.19×

as hot as the Sun

288×

the Sun's light output

-1.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Pi CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4321 →36 ly apart
HR 4551 →38 ly apart
HR 4274 →38 ly apart
HR 4476 →45 ly apart
HR 4592 →45 ly apart
HD 95509 →47 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 3.9To 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.