B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4706

362 lybrightness mag 5.38B9V

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4706B-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

Imai →19 ly apart
HR 4832 →22 ly apart
HD 104900 →23 ly apart
HR 4834 →29 ly apart
HR 4848 →32 ly apart
HR 4592 →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.