B-type star · blue-white star
HR 4838
HR 4838 is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 792 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,941 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 144× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 792 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 110653 · HIP 62128
10,941 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
144× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
792 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
144×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
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.