B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4487

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4487B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4634 →33 ly apart
HR 4355 →34 ly apart
HR 4271 →34 ly apart
HR 4448 →34 ly apart
HR 4692 →38 ly apart
HR 4669 →41 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 5.2To 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.