A-type star · white star

HR 4744

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4744A-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4669 →12 ly apart
HR 4692 →16 ly apart
Zet2Mus →21 ly apart
HR 4634 →22 ly apart
Zet1Mus →24 ly apart
Eps Mus →27 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

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.