B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4823

HR 4823 is a blue-white star in the constellation Crux 956 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,709 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 814× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 956 years ago.

956 lybrightness mag 4.91B6IV

Also catalogued as HD 110335 · HIP 61966

10,709 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
814× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
956 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
814×
the Sun's light output
-2.43
absolute magnitude
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HR 4823B-type
Sky regionCruxthis direction
StarHD 108395100 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.