F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4797

HR 4797 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Corvus 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,217 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 218 years ago.

218 lybrightness mag 6.20F0V

Also catalogued as HD 109585 · HIP 61496

7,217 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

12.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

218 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

12.87×

the Sun's light output

2.08

absolute magnitude

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HR 4797F-type

Sky regionCorvusthis direction

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Bright stars in Corvus

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corvus

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.