B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4832

HR 4832 is a blue-white star in the constellation Crux 354 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,422 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 354 years ago.

354 lybrightness mag 6.06B9V

Also catalogued as HD 110461 · HIP 62026

10,422 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
38.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
354 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
38.58×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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HR 4832B-type
Sky regionCruxthis direction
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.