A-type star · white star

HR 4836

HR 4836 is a white star in the constellation Centaurus 224 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,852 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 224 years ago.

224 lybrightness mag 6.43A7III

Also catalogued as HD 110575 · HIP 62081

7,852 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

11.00× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

224 years

at light speed from Earth

1.36×

as hot as the Sun

11.00×

the Sun's light output

2.25

absolute magnitude

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HR 4836A-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Centaurus

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

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.