A-type star · white star

HR 4513

HR 4513 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 460 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,402 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 460 years ago.

460 lybrightness mag 6.10A2III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 101995 · HIP 57211

9,402 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
62.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
460 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
62.92×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 4513A-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarLambda Cen41 ly
StarHR 432642 ly
StarMu Mus43 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.