B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4712

444 lybrightness mag 5.32B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 107832 · HIP 60449

11,031 K

temperature

5.32

apparent magnitude

120× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

444 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

120×

the Sun's light output

-0.35

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4712B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4724 →6.3 ly apart
HR 4748 →30 ly apart
HR 4651 →32 ly apart
HR 4675 →47 ly apart
HR 4524 →58 ly apart
HR 4879 →60 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.