Menkent

Menkent marks Centaurus as a star. Look for it while tracing Centaurus on a dark night. The IAU proper name sits beside older Bayer and catalog labels on modern atlases.

Wikipedia

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID
HIP 68933
Distance
18.03 pc · 58.8 ly
Parallax
55.45 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G)
2.22
Color (BP-RP)
-
Radius
unknown
RA · Dec
211.67° · -36.37°