B-type star · blue-white star

Ups1Cen

427 lybrightness mag 3.87B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 5249 · HD 121790 · HIP 68282

13,781 K

temperature

3.87

apparent magnitude

423× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

427 years

at light speed from Earth

2.39×

as hot as the Sun

423×

the Sun's light output

-1.72

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Ups1CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5286 →16 ly apart
Heng →28 ly apart
HR 5118 →31 ly apart
HR 5121 →33 ly apart
HR 5318 →36 ly apart
HD 126759 →46 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.