A-type star · white star

40 Sex

280 lybrightness mag 6.61A2IV

Also catalogued as HR 4229 · HD 93742 · HIP 52913

8,079 K
temperature
6.61
apparent magnitude
14.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
280 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
14.62×
the Sun's light output
1.94
absolute magnitude
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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.