B-type star · blue-white star

Rho Lup

316 lybrightness mag 4.05B5V

Also catalogued as HR 5453 · HD 128345 · HIP 71536

12,529 K

temperature

4.05

apparent magnitude

196× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

316 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

196×

the Sun's light output

-0.88

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Rho LupB-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5494 →17 ly apart
HR 5427 →22 ly apart
Tau2Lup →25 ly apart
HD 123247 →29 ly apart
Iot Lup →34 ly apart
HR 5617 →35 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Gam Lup →mag 2.8
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.