F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4570

HR 4570 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 158 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,843 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 158 years ago.

158 lybrightness mag 6.26F3IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 103746 · HIP 58242

6,843 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

6.42× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

158 years

at light speed from Earth

1.19×

as hot as the Sun

6.42×

the Sun's light output

2.83

absolute magnitude

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HR 4570F-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.