A-type star · white star

HR 4556

1,546 lybrightness mag 6.05A0/A1III

Also catalogued as HD 103400 · HIP 58041

9,542 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

744× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0/A1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,546 years

at light speed from Earth

1.65×

as hot as the Sun

744×

the Sun's light output

-2.33

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4556A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4472 →140 ly apart
HR 4768 →200 ly apart
HR 4415 →220 ly apart
HR 4266 →250 ly apart
HD 92399 →270 ly apart
HR 4323 →290 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.