B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4908

brightness mag 5.34O9Ib

Also catalogued as HD 112244 · HIP 63117

10,002 K

temperature

5.34

apparent magnitude

63,679,552× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

O9Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

63,679,552×

the Sun's light output

-14.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4908B-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4887 →20,000 ly apart
HR 4876 →20,000 ly apart
Kap Cru →20,000 ly apart
HR 5027 →20,000 ly apart
HR 5124 →33,000 ly apart
HR 5036 →34,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.