B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4814

HR 4814 is a blue-white star in the constellation Musca 373 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,795 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 373 years ago.

373 lybrightness mag 6.26B8V

Also catalogued as HD 110020 · HIP 61796

10,795 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
35.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
373 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
35.65×
the Sun's light output
0.97
absolute magnitude
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HR 4814B-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarZeta Cru26 ly
StarEta Mus26 ly
StarBeta Mus33 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarDelta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Musca

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.