B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4472

1,623 lybrightness mag 5.84B2.5IV

Also catalogued as HD 100929 · HIP 56606

11,607 K

temperature

5.84

apparent magnitude

994× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,623 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

994×

the Sun's light output

-2.64

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4472B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4556 →140 ly apart
HR 4266 →220 ly apart
HD 92399 →250 ly apart
HR 4415 →260 ly apart
HR 4645 →280 ly apart
HR 4768 →290 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 5.8To 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.