A-type star · white star

HR 4466

HR 4466 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 202 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,747 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 202 years ago.

202 lybrightness mag 5.26A7m

Also catalogued as HD 100825 · HIP 56573

7,747 K

temperature

5.26

apparent magnitude

26.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

202 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

26.18×

the Sun's light output

1.30

absolute magnitude

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HR 4466A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.