F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4634

HR 4634 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Crux 311 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,891 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 311 years ago.

311 lybrightness mag 6.08F0III

Also catalogued as HD 105841 · HIP 59396

6,891 K

temperature

6.08

apparent magnitude

29.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

311 years

at light speed from Earth

1.19×

as hot as the Sun

29.27×

the Sun's light output

1.18

absolute magnitude

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HR 4634F-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.