B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4592

HR 4592 is a blue-white star in the constellation Crux 334 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 334 years ago.

334 lybrightness mag 6.16A1V

Also catalogued as HD 104430 · HIP 58642

10,175 K

temperature

6.16

apparent magnitude

31.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

334 years

at light speed from Earth

1.76×

as hot as the Sun

31.36×

the Sun's light output

1.11

absolute magnitude

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HR 4592B-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Crux

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.