B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4648

1,424 lybrightness mag 5.77B4III

Also catalogued as HD 106231 · HIP 59607

12,370 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

817× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,424 years

at light speed from Earth

2.14×

as hot as the Sun

817×

the Sun's light output

-2.43

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4648B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4625 →180 ly apart
HR 4647 →280 ly apart
HR 4938 →330 ly apart
HR 4420 →340 ly apart
HD 95716 →350 ly apart
HR 5061 →410 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.