B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4857

740 lybrightness mag 6.43B8V

Also catalogued as HD 111226 · HIP 62448

10,912 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

120× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

740 years

at light speed from Earth

1.89×

as hot as the Sun

120×

the Sun's light output

-0.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4857B-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 107869 →100 ly apart
HR 4810 →130 ly apart
54 Vir →150 ly apart
HR 4911 →150 ly apart
HR 4742 →160 ly apart
HR 4838 →160 ly apart

Bright stars in Hydra

46Gam Hya →mag 3.0
16Zet Hya →mag 3.1
Nu Hya →mag 3.1
49Pi Hya →mag 3.3
Ashlesha →mag 3.4
Xi Hya →mag 3.5
41Lam Hya →mag 3.6
42Mu Hya →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.