A-type star · white star

HR 4551

336 lybrightness mag 5.56B4III

Also catalogued as HD 103101 · HIP 57870

9,339 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

55.06× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

336 years

at light speed from Earth

1.62×

as hot as the Sun

55.06×

the Sun's light output

0.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4551A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4592 →8.1 ly apart
HD 104900 →20 ly apart
Imai →23 ly apart
HR 4706 →36 ly apart
HR 4634 →37 ly apart
Pi Cen →38 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 5.6To 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.