B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4664

HR 4664 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 380 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,201 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 380 years ago.

380 lybrightness mag 6.21A0V

Also catalogued as HD 106676 · HIP 59851

10,201 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
38.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
380 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
38.83×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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HR 4664B-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 476933 ly
StarEpsilon Cha41 ly
StarHR 464942 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Musca

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.