B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4460

HR 4460 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 426 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,200 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 211× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 426 years ago.

426 lybrightness mag 4.62B9V

Also catalogued as HD 100673 · HIP 56480

11,200 K
temperature
4.62
apparent magnitude
211× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
426 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
211×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 4460B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 436024 ly
StarHR 431843 ly
StarHD 9550946 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.