F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4782

HR 4782 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Centaurus 212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,735 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 212 years ago.

212 lybrightness mag 6.38F5IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 109312 · HIP 61328

6,735 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
10.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
212 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
10.37×
the Sun's light output
2.31
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.