B-type star · blue-white star

4 Cen

637 lybrightness mag 4.75B4IV

Also catalogued as HR 5221 · HD 120955 · HIP 67786

11,761 K

temperature

4.75

apparent magnitude

418× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

637 years

at light speed from Earth

2.04×

as hot as the Sun

418×

the Sun's light output

-1.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

4 CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5104 →56 ly apart
HD 121758 →67 ly apart
HR 5259 →100 ly apart
HR 5324 →100 ly apart
HR 5246 →110 ly apart
HR 5466 →120 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 4.8To 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.