B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4549

HR 4549 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,975 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 4.89B4V

Also catalogued as HD 103079 · HIP 57851

11,975 K
temperature
4.89
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 4549B-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 448519 ly
StarZeta Cru20 ly
StarHR 460426 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.