F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4856

HR 4856 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,221 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 228 years ago.

228 lybrightness mag 6.27F7V

Also catalogued as HD 111199 · HIP 62421

6,221 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

13.26× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

228 years

at light speed from Earth

1.08×

as hot as the Sun

13.26×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

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HR 4856F-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

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Bright stars in Virgo

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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.