A-type star · white star
HR 4624
HR 4624 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 340 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,866 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 340 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 105509 · HIP 59229
7,866 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
47.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
340 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
47.38×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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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.