B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4838

792 lybrightness mag 6.38B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 110653 · HIP 62128

10,941 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

144× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

792 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

144×

the Sun's light output

-0.55

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4838B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4755 →97 ly apart
HD 107869 →110 ly apart
HR 4612 →110 ly apart
HR 5043 →120 ly apart
HR 4906 →160 ly apart
HR 4857 →160 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.