B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4854

HR 4854 is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 867 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,290 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 184× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 867 years ago.

867 lybrightness mag 6.31A0spe...

Also catalogued as HD 111133 · HIP 62376

10,290 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
184× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0spe...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
867 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
184×
the Sun's light output
-0.81
absolute magnitude
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HR 4854B-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
StarHR 477089 ly
StarHR 4986130 ly
StarSigma Vir220 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.