F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4970

277 lybrightness mag 5.78F7IV

Also catalogued as HD 114435 · HIP 64332

6,295 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

30.59× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

277 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

30.59×

the Sun's light output

1.14

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4970F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4947 →40 ly apart
HR 4888 →41 ly apart
HR 4796 →50 ly apart
HR 4996 →51 ly apart
HR 5092 →51 ly apart
HR 5172 →54 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 5.8To 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.