B-type star · blue-white star

The Lup

414 lybrightness mag 4.22B2.5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 5987 · HD 144294 · HIP 78918

13,211 K

temperature

4.22

apparent magnitude

288× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

414 years

at light speed from Earth

2.29×

as hot as the Sun

288×

the Sun's light output

-1.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The LupB-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5967 →20 ly apart
HR 6007 →25 ly apart
HR 6100 →27 ly apart
Eta Lup →31 ly apart
HR 6006 →36 ly apart
HR 5935 →42 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 4.2To 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.