B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4597
HR 4597 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 345 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,247 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 345 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 104600 · HIP 58720
11,247 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
42.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
345 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
42.89×
the Sun's light output
0.77
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.