A-type star · white star

HR 4744

HR 4744 is a white star in the constellation Crux 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,859 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 319 years ago.

319 lybrightness mag 6.05A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 108501 · HIP 60851

9,859 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

31.77× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

319 years

at light speed from Earth

1.71×

as hot as the Sun

31.77×

the Sun's light output

1.09

absolute magnitude

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HR 4744A-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.