A-type star · white star

HR 4852

HR 4852 is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,486 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 6.33A5m

Also catalogued as HD 111112 · HIP 62170

8,486 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
52.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
52.82×
the Sun's light output
0.54
absolute magnitude
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HR 4852A-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
Star4 UMi42 ly
StarHR 547942 ly
StarHR 466569 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Camelopardalis

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.