A-type star · white star
HR 4736
HR 4736 is a white star in the constellation Crux 663 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,520 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 141× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 663 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 108355 · HIP 60771
9,520 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
141× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
663 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
141×
the Sun's light output
-0.52
absolute magnitude
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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.