B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4724

HR 4724 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 439 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 439 years ago.

439 lybrightness mag 5.71B9IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 108114 · HIP 60610

11,031 K

temperature

5.71

apparent magnitude

82.04× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

439 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

82.04×

the Sun's light output

0.07

absolute magnitude

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HR 4724B-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Centaurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.