A-type star · white star

HR 4722

HR 4722 is a white star in the constellation Virgo 230 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 230 years ago.

230 lybrightness mag 5.95A1V

Also catalogued as HD 108107 · HIP 60595

9,619 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
18.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
230 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
18.06×
the Sun's light output
1.71
absolute magnitude
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HR 4722A-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
Star25 Vir26 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.