B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4796

237 lybrightness mag 5.78A0V

Also catalogued as HD 109573 · HIP 61498

10,088 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

22.49× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

237 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

22.49×

the Sun's light output

1.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4796B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4836 →15 ly apart
HR 4631 →22 ly apart
HR 4973 →34 ly apart
HR 4947 →34 ly apart
HR 4553 →41 ly apart
HR 5008 →43 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.