A-type star · white star
HR 4578
HR 4578 is a white star in the constellation Crux. Its surface is about 8,370 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50,582,466× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.59A3Ib
Also catalogued as HD 104035 · HIP 58427
8,370 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
50,582,466× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
50,582,466×
the Sun's light output
-14.41
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.