B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4940

390 lybrightness mag 4.71B5V

Also catalogued as HD 113703 · HIP 63945

12,449 K

temperature

4.71

apparent magnitude

163× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

390 years

at light speed from Earth

2.16×

as hot as the Sun

163×

the Sun's light output

-0.68

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4940B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5046 →22 ly apart
HR 4985 →29 ly apart
HR 4913 →30 ly apart
HR 4965 →31 ly apart
HR 5029 →31 ly apart
HR 5026 →39 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 4.7To 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.