B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4487

HR 4487 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 285 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 285 years ago.

285 lybrightness mag 5.15B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 101189 · HIP 56754

10,653 K
temperature
5.15
apparent magnitude
57.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
285 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
57.97×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 4487B-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 463433 ly
StarHR 435534 ly
StarHR 427134 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.