B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4874

400 lybrightness mag 4.90B9V

Also catalogued as HD 111597 · HIP 62683

10,529 K

temperature

4.90

apparent magnitude

144× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

400 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

144×

the Sun's light output

-0.54

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4874B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4999 →40 ly apart
HR 4839 →43 ly apart
HR 4850 →45 ly apart
HR 4724 →55 ly apart
HR 4817 →55 ly apart
HR 4651 →58 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 4.9To 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.