B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4796
HR 4796 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,088 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 237 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 109573 · HIP 61498
10,088 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
22.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
237 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
22.49×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.