A-type star · white star
HR 4804
HR 4804 is a white star in the constellation Musca 569 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,047 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 569 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 109857 · HIP 61738
9,047 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
69.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
569 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
69.12×
the Sun's light output
0.25
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.