F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 4746
HR 4746 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,724 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 241 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 108506 · HIP 60813
6,724 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
15.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
241 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
15.33×
the Sun's light output
1.89
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.