B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4706
HR 4706 is a blue-white star in the constellation Crux 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 107696 · HIP 60379
11,539 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
75.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
2.00×
as hot as the Sun
75.44×
the Sun's light output
0.16
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.