A-type star · white star

HR 4794

116 lybrightness mag 5.12A7III

Also catalogued as HD 109536 · HIP 61468

7,982 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

9.84× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

116 years

at light speed from Earth

1.38×

as hot as the Sun

9.84×

the Sun's light output

2.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4794A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4903 →18 ly apart
Gam Cen →22 ly apart
Tau Cen →22 ly apart
HR 4788 →24 ly apart
Dofida →26 ly apart
HR 4922 →28 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 5.1To 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.