B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4805
HR 4805 is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 558 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,125 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 558 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 109860 · HIP 61637
10,125 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
74.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
558 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
74.75×
the Sun's light output
0.17
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.