A Centauri is a single[7] star in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

It is blue-white in hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.62.

[2] The star is located at a distance of approximately 430 light-years from the Sun based on stellar parallax.

[2] This is a rapidly rotating Be star, showing an emission-line spectrum on top of the normal absorption spectrum of the star, due to a circumstellar disk of ejected matter.

[8] It is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B9V.